(v. t.) To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove; to admonish.
(n.) A direct and pointed reproof; a reprimand; also, chastisement; punishment.
(n.) Check; rebuff.
Example Sentences:
(1) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bill Shorten backs prospect of Indigenous treaty to ‘move beyond constitutional recognition’ At a press conference, Turnbull rebuked Shorten for his lack of “discipline” on Q&A, which is, after all, the home of reasoned and reasonable political discourse.
(3) Peter Schweizer – whose book scrutinizing donations to the Clinton Foundation has earned sharp rebukes from Hillary Clinton’s campaign and liberally aligned groups – confirmed on Thursday plans to investigate Bush’s past financial dealings.
(4) Howard was rebuked by the race discrimination commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane, within minutes of the interview being aired.
(5) FBI v Apple hearing: 'Apple is in an arms race with criminals and hackers' – live Read more This all comes on the heels of a judge in New York strongly rebuking the FBI and Department of Justice in a court decision on Monday.
(6) Bates also rebuked the agency for misrepresenting the true scope of a major collection program for the third time in three years.
(7) The strong-arm tactics immediately drew a rebuke from the US.
(8) Anyone who stands in his way, from the prime minister to the Labour leader Ed Miliband and grandees in his own party such as the former leader Lord Steel of Aikwood, can expect a withering rebuke from Clegg.
(9) The state department issued a stinging rebuke of the behaviour of the Saudis and their Egyptian, Emirati and Bahraini allies, with the secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, warning them to make their demands on Qatar “ reasonable and actionable ”.
(10) The same refusal to back down characterised his dispute with Norman Mailer, whose attitudes towards women had brought rebukes from Gloria Steinem and Kate Millett.
(11) Those sorts of failures and might-have-beens have pockmarked Kerry’s record, and the rebukes he has faced have at times been scathing.
(12) Their barking drew an entertaining rebuke from Ta-Nehisi Coates to which we cannot resist linking, however: Carlson's descent from reasonably credible magazine journalist to inept race hustler is well mapped territory.
(13) Many titles are designed as a deliberate rebuke to the mainstream, which rarely shows much interest in depicting alternative lifestyles or engaging with social issues.
(14) The prime minister took the opportunity during a Coalition meeting on Wednesday to urge his colleagues to resist talking about themselves, in an apparent rebuke to Tony Abbott and others who continued to comment about the circumstances leading to the September leadership spill.
(15) I’ve watched a lot of cats do a lot of weird and interesting things.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Full speech: Michelle Obama’s powerful rebuke against Trump Furthermore, the controversies engulfing Trump’s campaign have distracted almost entirely from the daily dump by WikiLeaks of nearly 2,000 emails hacked from the Clinton campaign .
(16) In a sharp rebuke to Israel , state department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said: "The remarks of the defence minister, if accurate, are offensive and inappropriate, especially given all that the US is doing to support Israel's security needs.
(17) Or is there a link with president Dmitry Medvedev's statement on 14 July, the day before her murder, that federal forces should be involved in counter-terrorist operations in Chechnya and Ingushetia – an apparent rebuke to Kadyrov, whose own forces have masterminded operations?
(18) Gavin Barwell hasn’t been housing minister for very long at all, but has already elicited a stinging rebuke from his boss at No 10.
(19) Kim Davis draws rebuke from Eye of the Tiger band after song plays at rally Read more “I just want to give God the glory,” she said.
(20) The part played by the two men in the ousting of well-respected chairman David Plowright the following year earned them a stinging rebuke from John Cleese, whose fax famously read "fuck off out of it, you upstart caterer".
Reject
Definition:
(v. t.) To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.
(v. t.) To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline haughtily or harshly; to repudiate.
(v. t.) To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request.
Example Sentences:
(1) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
(2) Factors associated with higher incidence of rejection included loose sutures, traumatic wound dehiscence, and grafts larger than 8.5 mm.
(3) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
(4) These results suggest that prevention of xenograft rejection using PAF-antagonist in association with other methods should be further investigated.
(5) Clinical diagnosis of rejection was made independently of immunological results.
(6) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
(7) Maintenance therapy was always steroid-free to start with (cyclosporin+azathioprine) but in almost one half of our oldest survivors, it failed to avoid rejection and we had to add low-dose oral steroids for at least several months.
(8) This alloimmune memory was shown to survive for up to 50 days after first-set rejection.
(9) The diagnosis of acute infectious enterocolitis was rejected.
(10) Thirteen of the dogs treated with various drug regimens lived for 90 days, after which time treatment was stopped; 10 of the dogs eventually rejected the grafts, but three had continued graft function for 6 months or longer and may be permanently tolerant.
(11) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
(12) A study was conducted to assess the suppression of segmental pancreatic allograft rejection by cyclosporine (CSA) alone in baboons and dogs, and subtotal marrow irradiation (TL1) alone and TL 1 in combination with CSA in baboons.
(13) It is understood that Cooper rejected pressure from senior Labour figures last week for both her and Liz Kendall to drop out and leave the way clear for Burnham to contest Corbyn alone.
(14) The correlations between the objective risk estimates and the subjective risk estimates were low overall (r = 0.089, p = 0.08); for women rejecting (r = 0.024, p = 0.44) or accepting (r = 0.082, p = 0.12) amniocentesis.
(15) Britain First applied to use seven slogans in the elections and four were rejected, but the remaining three, including the slogan relating to Rigby, were approved by the watchdog.
(16) The value of D was found to correlate significantly with age, with the upper rejection limit (5% level) increasingly elevated from 4.8 mm at 20 years to 7.5 mm at 80 years.
(17) Ninety-two percent of the patients were not reactive to dinitrochlorobenzene after sensitization; skin allograft rejection occurred in an average of 17 days.
(18) Acquired renal cysts developed even in grafts undergoing chronic rejection, and increased numbers were found in native kidneys that were in uremic conditions for long periods, both before and after renal transplantation.
(19) In most cases, there were both quantitative and morphological differences between the infiltrates in acute rejection and in the remaining perivascular infiltrates after treatment.
(20) Additionally, it appears effective as a prophylactic treatment against acute renal and cardiac rejection in the immediate post-transplantation period.