rebuff• In adulthood, he may over-react to rejection from peers - a rebuff from some one he hoped to date perhaps.• His words amounted to a rebuff.• Merrill felt her face grow warm at this indirectreference to her rebuff of the previous evening.• This, of course, is a recipe for disaster, her attempts to please meeting with a steadystream of rebuffs.• Despite several rebuffs, Farley refused to leave Laura alone.• He had mastered his handicap, but he could not master the rebuffs he suffered, due to his appearance.• Here is a collection of their rebuffs.
Originrebuff
(1500-1600) Early Frenchrebuffer, from Old Italianribuffare“to criticize angrily”
ADJECTIVE | VERB + REBUFF | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤sharp斷然的拒絕➤humiliating羞辱性的回絕➤electoral (BrE) 選民的冷遇◇The party suffered a humiliating electoral rebuff in 1945.該政黨在 1945 年的選舉中遭到選民的冷遇,很是丟臉。VERB + REBUFF➤meet (sth) with, receive, suffer遭到回絕◇Her efforts were met with a sharp rebuff.她的努力遭到了斷然拒絕。PREPOSITION➤a rebuff to對⋯的回絕◇In a rebuff to the president, Congress voted against the bill.作為對總統的回絕,國會投票反對該項法案。➤rebuff from⋯作出的回絕◇She suffered a rebuff from her manager when she raised the matter.她向經理提出這個問題時碰了一鼻子灰。