REBUFFED Synonyms: 72 Similar and Opposite Words

rebuffed

verb

past tense of rebuff

as in spurned

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After LeBron James spurned them in free agency and Dunleavy unexpectedly addressed the idea of Curry departing, some pundits mused about the possibility.

— Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2026
No mob godfather has ever been as terrifying as Roscoe Conkling spurned by Chester Arthur in the back of that carriage.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of spurned

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Their case was previously rejected by the district court and appeals court.

— David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2026
Meta, a week ago, rejected, then reversed course on an ad for Alex Gibney’s doc takedown Musk, and now a studio is about to weigh in on Meta.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026

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Burnham has refused to rule out tax hikes, and the British press is reporting that windfall taxes targeting banks might be on the table.

— Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2026
Iran has continued to attack some tankers shuttling oil through the strait – but those could be ships that refused to pay a toll, Brouhard suggested.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026

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The investors among this small and scorned generation, now aged 45-61, are watching markets play out on their screens and constantly see the plot parallels with past cycles.

— Michael Santoli, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026
On a fictional highway in 1958, a Cadillac became badly scorned by a little Nash Rambler.

— Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 14 Sep. 2026

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Newsom had denied a previous decision granting parole to Van Houten but was overruled by an appellate court.

— Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
But, an hour before the midnight deadline for her execution was due to expire, the US Supreme Court overruled the stay, and prison officials went ahead with the process.

— Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 1 Oct. 2026

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In this sense, Mehring’s play is echoing Einstein’s critique of the wealthy German Jews who disdained their poorer Eastern cousins.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026
Although the Constitution requires congressional involvement in war-making, Trump like Nixon disdained that mandate with terrible consequences.

— Elizabeth Holtzman, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2026

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But the two bills Newsom vetoed on Wednesday, AB 1881 and AB 2218, sought to redress those historic wrongs by requiring the state to take Indigenous history with land and waterways into account, proponents of them said.

— Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026
The governor also vetoed a bill authored by Assemblymember James Ramos (D-Highland) that would have established protections for tribes to hold religious ceremonies at sacred sites on state lands.

— Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

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For the next five years, Evans scouted for the Seattle Mariners.

— Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026
The leader of the unit is former Texas quarterback Trey Owens, a former four-star recruit whom Dykes and the staff scouted in high school.

— Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Sep. 2026

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