Crossword-Solution: REBUFFED
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rebuffed | imp. & p. p. | of Rebuff |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| REBUFFED | anagram | BUFFDEER, BUFFERED |
We have 6 clues for the answer “REBUFFED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Kept at arm's length | 1 answer |
| Rejected brusquely, as an advance | 1 answer |
| Brushed aside | 2 answers |
| Gave the cold shoulder | 3 answers |
| Snubbed | 5 answers |
| Turned down | 12 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MCZAEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with REBUFFED (5)
However, if he needed something, he would approach these females in a sexual manner and was usually rebuffed.
She told him all about her life; how she had lost her parents; how her aunt had taken her in and found a place for her in the town; how the merchant’s son had tried to take liberties with her, and how she had rebuffed him.
And such enthusiasts found in Robert Herrick a hideous dreamy man, who, without ever perpetrating any actual discourtesy, always managed to dismiss them, somehow, with a sense of having been rebuffed.
But the cabman, too, is worth the sympathy of the judicious; for he was a fellow of genuine kindliness and a high sense of personal dignity incensed by drink; and his advances had been cruelly and publicly rebuffed.
Henry, pointed to one conclusion, which I have never verified, and can now never verify until the great assize—the conclusion that he had at last forgotten himself, had gone too far in his advances, and had been rebuffed.
Quotes with REBUFFED (3)
Beyond aspects of pain that are physical, thought Oppenheimer, sickness or injury or privation, beyond the so-called obvious, suffering can be a work of art. It can be made of buried and rising things, helpless and undiscovered, song of frustrated want, silence after desire. It can be the test of the self falling short, constrained, distorted, disturbed or rebuffed, the vacuum left by longing, call without an answer.
She knew that kindness kills. All her life she'd suspected this and so she'd only ever been cold and cruel. She'd faced kindness with cutting remarks. She'd curled her lips at smiling faces. She'd twisted every thoughtful, considerate act into an assault. Everyone who was nice to her, who was compassionate and loving, she rebuffed. Because she'd loved them. Loved them with all her heart, and wouldn't see them hurt. Because she'd known all her life that the surest way to hurt …
The small talk that sprang readily to their lips came to hers only with a tremendous effort. After an opportunity had come and gone, she often scolded herself for not saying this or doing that, for laughing too loud or smiling too little. Whenever she tried to re-create the moment of contact, she was easily rebuffed by the slightest gesture, withdrawing all too quickly if she thought she was in the way. The old stone-and-brick schoolhouse, with its four gabled roofs and round…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Onion, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1992–2022).