nyet
Americanadverb
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I ask my clear-headed colleague, Rick Maese, who gave me the nyet look.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2014
How many ways can I say it — no, nyet, lo.”
From New York Times ● May 29, 2013
The team's new slogan is 'Nothing but nyet.'
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2011
Andropov misses a big rally "Yevo nyet," astonished Soviet officials whispered to each other in the Kremlin's 6,000-seat Palace of Congresses last Saturday.
From Time Magazine Archive
In addition to davai, I had learned other important words, such as nyet, which meant “no”; sveenya, which meant “pig”; and of course fasheest, “fascist.”
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
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