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to reject another's help, suggestion, or approach — typically rudely

or in a battle or fight: to drive back

He was never rebuffed or criticised because he never went an inch out of his orbit.
Virginia Woolf -- A Sketch of the Past

Margaret had given instructions that no one who mentioned her name should ever be rebuffed.
E.M. Forster -- Howards End
And Martina had been rebuffed by an excruciating shin-scrape.
Trenton Lee Stewart -- The Mysterious Benedict Society
Before the nurse could rebuff me, however, I saw Christian coming down the hall with another doctor.
Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart
In reply, he advised prudent preparations for war, in the event of another rebuff.
David McCullough -- John Adams
As a doctor's wife I knew that, too, but he would listen to no one and rebuffed all attempts to help him.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
MacCann went briskly to and fro among the students, talking rapidly, answering rebuffs and leading one after another to the table.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Carlisle's firm rebuff was directed toward James.
Stephenie Meyer -- Twilight
Hands shot up around the room, but she rebuffed all questions and marched off to secure the doors.
Ransom Riggs -- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Where Aron was received, Cal was rebuffed for doing or saying exactly the same thing.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
She had rebuffed the Indian men she wasn't interested in, and she had been forbidden as a teenager to date.
Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
Rebuffed from his fine feelings, Milkman matched her cold tone: "You loved those white folks that much?"
Toni Morrison -- Song of Solomon
As a protective mechanism, I developed a terse, cynical mode of speech that rebuffed those who sought to get too close to me.
Richard Wright -- Black Boy
That was his rebuff to Duane—his slap in the face to an interfering ranger service.
Zane Grey -- The Lone Star Ranger
I am an honest wife, but not a shrew, And I believe that a calm, icy glance Is quite enough to rebuff an advance.
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere -- Tartuffe
Cunning hints inviting confidence she rebuffed with violence.
Stephen Crane -- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
If Hans Castorp had asked the director for permission to carry out his eccentric plan, he would have been rebuffed in no uncertain terms.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
Then he drove me back to my house, rebuffing my halfhearted protests by promising to get me back to my car the next morning.
Sarah Dessen -- The Truth About Forever
Having no excuse for lingering longer, I slipped out, while Linton was engaged in timidly rebuffing the advances of a friendly sheep-dog.
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
'Yes, Doyce,' returned Clennam, 'at an end as far as your efforts and rebuffs are concerned, I admit, but not as far as mine are.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit

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