Definitions
reject outright and bluntly
Word origin
From obsolete French rebuffer, from Middle French rebuffer (compare French rebiffer (“to rise up, revolt”)), from Italian ribuffare.
Used in a sentence
“He was surprised by her quick rebuff to his proposal.”
“the strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud”
“The plaque (2014) doesn't tell you that Leonard [Woolf] had initially been rebuffed. His intended proposal was refused by Virginia [Woolf to be], who then had a change of heart.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Blunt rejection”6 letters
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