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
And such an acknowledgment would justify the other in more open means of revenge, and would stamp the refuser as a coward also.
From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by John R. Spears
No suits at law, no wars, no strife, debate, nor wrangling; none will be there an usurer, none will be there a pinch-penny, a scrape-good wretch, or churlish hard-hearted refuser.
From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by John Willcock
