rejection slip
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of rejection slip
First recorded in 1905–10
Example Sentences
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In the form of a nasty putdown, a rejection slip or a banana.
From Washington Post • May 5, 2017
A rejection slip from Lee may be as much a point of pride for reporters as those from The Paris Review and The New Yorker are for fiction writers.
From Salon • Sep. 27, 2015
I still have that rejection slip somewhere, typed on Konami letterhead with the company’s trademark orange and red logo.
From Time • Mar. 27, 2014
It received a rejection slip from a Bill Taylor, thanking him for his trouble, but with encouragement enough to keep him trying for "the writers' newspaper" through stints in Guildford, Bristol, southern Rhodesia and Slough.
From The Guardian • Jan. 25, 2013
Ten typed-up poems lay beneath a printed rejection slip from Criterion magazine, initialed by Mr. Eliot himself.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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