0 present participle of rebuff
1 to refuse to accept a helpful suggestion or offer from someone, often by answering in an unfriendly way:
She rebuffed all suggestions that she should resign.
Verbal rebuffing, which cannot be identified by an observer, could take place.
He has already succeeded in rebuffing the first set of overly bureaucratic proposals.
By 1908, the association was receiving, and rebuffing, requests to move it to a more prominent place in the city.
Leiningen is cold and remote to her, rebuffing all her attempts to make friends with him.
The woman then leaves the office, and the man, rebuffing his boss, dashes from his desk.
Paul is avoided by other astronauts nowadays because he was very rude and rebuffing when he returned from space.
