REBUFFED Synonyms: 72 Similar and Opposite Words

rebuffed

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past tense of rebuff

as in spurned

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And many of the best and brightest scientists and researchers spurned by America are going to other countries and are hired by businesses abroad that compete with our own—including, as Lee anticipated, China.

— Robert Hormats, Time, 4 July 2026
Beulah's spurned heir Joaquin (Juan Pablo Raba) calls up the mysterious Mariana (Raoul Max Trujillo) to help with his many problems, which include his ranch-usurping half-brother Rob-Will and those Duttons from Montana.

— Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 3 July 2026

Definition of spurned

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If it is outright rejected and people burn down the theaters, cool.

— Corbin Bolies, Variety, 22 July 2026
The lawsuit also claims that when the same group offered $100,000 to fund a study looking into whether the transition was needed and whether other options were available, the school rejected the proposal.

— Chaewon Chung July 22, Sacbee.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of rejected

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The bank froze the gold after the UK – along with the US and numerous other countries – refused to recognize Maduro as the winner of Venezuela’s disputed 2018 presidential election.

— German Padinger, CNN Money, 24 July 2026
While The Athletic spoke to a dozen sources around the league for this story, almost all refused to comment for publication, even anonymously.

— Annie Costabile, New York Times, 24 July 2026

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Police quickly connected them to his ex-fiancée and began investigating her, with a media narrative painting her as a woman scorned and willing to do anything to ruin his life.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 17 July 2026
The season ended with Beth and Rip’s adopted son Carter (Finn Little) being abducted by the family that Beulah scorned when going into business with the infamous Beth Dutton.

— Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 7 July 2026

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However, their arguments were overruled by subsequent expert studies and a ruling by France’s highest administrative court, the Conseil d’Etat.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 17 July 2026
The injunction overruled the NCAA, which deemed Sorsby permanently ineligible this spring for committing thousands of gambling violations during his college career, including betting on his own team as a member of Indiana in 2022.

— Justin Williams, New York Times, 16 July 2026

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Raised in a household of voracious readers in suburban Philadelphia, her father a professor of Spanish at the University of Pennsylvania and her mother having worked for magazines, Sebold disdained the university’s frat culture.

— Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 30 June 2026
Musk has long disdained the norms that the executives who run giant public companies typically embrace.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 3 June 2026

Definition of disdained

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Nineteen minutes after the first communication, another followed, dictating that the bill be vetoed, according to legislative chairwoman Nicole Watts.

— Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026
In April, Maine Governor Janet Mills vetoed a bill that would have imposed a similar freeze on those facilities.

— Jasper Ward, USA Today, 14 July 2026

Definition of vetoed

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