of Rebuff
Source: Webster's dictionaryProudhon was a voluntary hermit in the political world of the nineteenth century. He sought no followers, indignantly rebuffed suggestions that he had created as system of any kind, and almost certainly rejoiced in the fact that he accepted the title anarchist in virtual isolation. George Woodcock
Fact: upon locking yourself our of your apartment you will immediately need to use the bathroom. Fact: and then you will stand in place and watch your door. You will just stare. As though rebuffed by it. As though it has done this to you. Augusten Burroughs
The subject [of Stalin's death] permitted a rare blend of invective and speculation-both Hearst papers, as I recall, ran cartoons of Stalin being rebuffed at the gates of Heaven, where Hearst had no correspondents-and I have seldom enjoyed a week of newspaper reading more. A. J. Liebling
I was bartending for a long time and going on auditions and was constantly being rebuffed. Mark Ruffalo
I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world. Anne Roiphe
People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant. Bernard Pivot