Crossword-Solution: REBUFF
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rebuff | n. | Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance. |
| Rebuff | n. | Sudden check; unexpected repulse; defeat; refusal; repellence; rejection of solicitation. |
| Rebuff | v. t. | To beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check; to repel or repulse violently, harshly, or uncourteously. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| REBUFF | anagram | BUFFER |
We have 101 clues for the answer “REBUFF”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Abrupt rejection | 1 answer |
| Abrupt snub | 1 answer |
| Abrupt turndown | 1 answer |
| Blunt refusal | 1 answer |
| Blunt turndown | 1 answer |
| Ungracious rejection | 1 answer |
| Blunt rejection | 2 answers |
| Slap in the face | 4 answers |
| FORCE back | 4 answers |
| hold at bay | 4 answers |
| Give the cold shoulder | 7 answers |
| Say no to | 9 answers |
| BLUNT, WILFRID | 10 answers |
| knock back | 11 answers |
| Blunt end | 13 answers |
| Cold-shoulder | 14 answers |
| Brush off | 15 answers |
| BEAT back | 18 answers |
| Turn Back | 19 answers |
| slap | 19 answers |
| Snub | 20 answers |
| Repulse | 21 answers |
| Spurn | 24 answers |
| Jilt | 29 answers |
| Abnegate | 36 answers |
| extrude | 37 answers |
| ostracise | 38 answers |
| Waive | 40 answers |
| force out | 42 answers |
| Barb | 46 answers |
| Aspersion | 48 answers |
| deportation | 49 answers |
| forbiddance | 49 answers |
| impoundment | 49 answers |
| Disown | 50 answers |
| Eviction | 50 answers |
| expatriation | 50 answers |
| ousting | 50 answers |
| relegation | 50 answers |
| stricture | 50 answers |
| Scorn | 50 answers |
| Interdiction | 51 answers |
| chastening | 51 answers |
| ostracism | 51 answers |
| penalisation | 51 answers |
| segregation | 51 answers |
| Elimination | 52 answers |
| Banishment | 53 answers |
| DISPLACEMENT ___ | 53 answers |
| Proscrip-tion | 53 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
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greedy person
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Sentences with REBUFF (5)
Whether he had been trying to make love to his cousin again, and had got a rebuff—or whether his broken rest, night after night, was aggravating the queer contradictions and uncertainties in his character—I don’t know.
Swancourt again, but the sharp rebuff of the previous evening rendered such an interview particularly distasteful.
When, if I think but deep enough, You are wont to answer, prompt as rhyme; And you, too, find without rebuff Response your soul seeks many a time, Piercing its fine flesh-stuff.
The uncared-for clothes, the aggressive, grizzled beard, and the furtive, evasive eye of the new-comer bespoke the professional cadger, the man who would undergo hours of humiliating tale-spinning and rebuff rather than adventure on half a day’s decent work.
Darrow, surprised by the change, but accepting her rebuff as a phase of what he guessed to be a confused and tormented mood, rose from his seat and lifted her jacket from the chair-back on which she had hung it to dry.
Quotes with REBUFF (3)
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.
I grew up with an ambition and determination without which I would have been a good deal happier. I thought a lot and developed the faraway look of a dreamer, for it was always the distant heights that fascinated me and drew me to them in spirit. I was not sure what could be accomplished with tenacity and little else, but the target was set high and each rebuff only saw me more determined to see at least one major dream to its fulfillment.
Tis enough - Who listens once will listen twice Her heart be sure is not of ice And one refusal no rebuff.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 23 times in crossword archives (1988–2023).