refused

Meaning

of Refuse

Source: Webster's dictionary

loveless impermissible banned prohibited forbidden despised withhold blocked outlawed turn away turn down withheld repudiated disqualified disallowed

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given considered received designed supported accepted

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defuser

In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV. Erma Bombeck

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them. Henry Miller

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit. Anatole France

He who asks more of a friend than he can bestow deserves to be refused. American Proverb

When a man finds that he was wrong to have refused to eat, he should leave his anger and play a harp to call for harmony. Nigerian Proverb

Asking is no sin, and being refused is no tragedy. Russian Proverb