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”