refuse
verb (used with object)
to decline to accept (something offered).
refuser
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a word derived from
refuse.
Example Sentences
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Jo's five-year-old son Rowan is also autistic, classed as a "school refuser" because he's been unable to attend since February.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025
In dealing with a refuser, a health worker might insist on playing it.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2021
The father of existentialism and refuser of the Nobel Prize explains that he did not accept the editorship so much "to defend La Cause du Peuple as to defend the liberty of the press."
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a persistent refuser of invitations, and his acquaintances in the fashionable world were comparatively few.
From The Evil Shepherd by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
Another recipe for making a refuser is to pretend to ride hard at a fence and, at the last moment, turn the animal’s head from it, and then loudly rate and “lambaste” him for refusing!
From The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. by M. Horace (Matthew Horace) Hayes
