Crossword clues for refusing
refusing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Refuse \Re*fuse"\ (r?*f?z"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Refused (-f?zd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Refusing.] [F. refuser, either from (assumed) LL. refusare to refuse, v. freq. of L. refundere to pour back, give back, restore (see Refund to repay), or. fr. L. recusare to decline, refuse cf. Accuse, Ruse), influenced by L. refutare to drive back, repel, refute. Cf. Refute.]
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To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.
That never yet refused your hest.
--Chaucer. (Mil.) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops ar? about to engage the enemy; as, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks.
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To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor.
The cunning workman never doth refuse The meanest tool that he may chance to use.
--Herbert. To disown. [Obs.] ``Refuse thy name.''
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of refuse English)
Usage examples of "refusing".
I challenged him to explain his reasons for refusing to give her absolution, but he closed my lips by answering very coolly that he could not betray the secrets of the confessional.
I was sitting down to dinner when Medini came in cursing Zen and Zanovitch, whom he accused of being the authors of his misfortune, and of refusing to give him a hundred sequins, without which he could not possibly go.
You shall now be made aware of things which I could not explain before, owing to your refusing the appointment which I then gave you for no other purpose than to tell you all the truth.
She had been anxious to have friends, but she had dismissed all lovers, refusing to avail herself of a privilege which she could easily have enjoyed, but which would have rendered her contemptible in her own estimation.
In refusing such an offer you could not have better reasons than those you give, and it would be absurd to try and persuade him that we are not lovers, as the thing is self-evident.
She asked me to play but on my refusing did not make a point of it, but she insisted on her cousin being her partner.
Helen admired her she did not like to appear her inferior by refusing to imitate her freedom.
I made no answer, and sat down to table, and feigning good humour ate what was on the table, refusing to touch those dishes which had been taken away.
He upbraided me for refusing to further the plan he had concocted, and which he thought I would accept with rapture if I loved him.
Popeliniere himself had made the adventure more public by refusing to live with his wife, to whom he paid an income of twelve thousand francs.
I blushed at having in a manner led her astray, and I should have thought myself worthy of punishment if I had been capable of refusing the hand offered to me with so much nobility of feeling.
She had the bitter task of constantly refusing him, and even of running away if he pressed her hard.
I told him that I thought his terms very reasonable, and he went out with a profound bow, refusing absolutely to dine with me.
I made haste to leave this cut-throat place, after refusing to lend Talvis a hundred Louis, which he wanted to borrow of me on the strength of the revenge I owed him.
The whole town and the duke as well know your creditors to be knaves, but they have their reasons for refusing to see their conduct in its true light.