rebuff
B2CEFR level
58/100Rarity: uncommon
NeutralRegister
General verb
To reject or snub an approach, offer or overture bluntly.
Every friendly gesture he made was coldly rebuffed.
Business verb
To reject an offer, request or approach abruptly or ungraciously.
Our first overture was flatly rebuffed, but a quieter channel later reopened it.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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