noun

• 1The dismissing or refusing of a proposal, idea, etc.

  ‘the Union decided last night to recommend rejection of the offer’

  More example sentences

  • ‘the rejection of the application for parole’
  • ‘We fully support residents action against the plans, which we understand are recommended for rejection by the CMBC Officers.’
  • ‘Inevitably, subjective evaluation became the ultimate criterion for inclusion or rejection of specific events.’
  • ‘The lack of an explanation may in itself be sufficient basis for rejection of the transaction.’
  • ‘In fact, in the election Merkel suffered a decisive rejection.’
  • ‘Chairwoman of the Geraldton Health Service, Berit Young, was scathing in her rejection of the federation's claims.’
  • ‘Here is a second example where the stringency of ethics can lead to its rejection.’
  • ‘On the contrary, in the year following the base year, the number of rejections was reduced.’
  • ‘The "rational basis" for their rejection must have been misplaced somewhere.’
  • ‘There is also fresh evidence of the widespread rejection of GM foods by consumers.’
  • ‘He also stands by his rejection of an afterlife.’
  • ‘We begin with a late night rejection of the auto bailout on Capitol Hill.’
  • ‘The end of the 1960s saw a rejection of technocracy, for many valid reasons.’
  • ‘Almost half the time, rejection or delay of loans is due to insufficient documentation.’
  • ‘Strangely, my rejection of the French culture, manifested itself, only briefly, in a rejection of the national cuisine.’
  • ‘Yet the rejection of his predecessor's religious conservative approach to the stem cell issue was total.’
  • ‘Consequently, the logical and rational response to a new paradigm by most people is rejection.’
  • ‘While in prison he received a rejection of his memoir.’
  • ‘By the same token, neglecting to share a feast indicated an absence of ties, and exclusion from the feasting community meant rejection.’
  • ‘Sava Sekulic had a hard and harrowing life and faced continual rejection in his struggle as an artist.’
  • ‘In view of such a unilateral rejection, it is amazing that anyone should continue to cling to the false notion of universal acceptance.’

  Synonyms

  refusal, non-acceptance, declining, turning down, no, dismissal, spurning, rebuff

  repudiation, rebuff, spurning, abandonment, forsaking, desertion, shutting out, exclusion, shunning, cold-shouldering, ostracizing, ostracism, blackballing, blacklisting, avoidance, ignoring, snubbing, snub, cutting dead

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  1. 1.1The action of spurning a person's affections.
     ‘some people are reluctant to try it, because they fear rejection’
     More example sentences

     • ‘The root problem is rebellion - some form of disobedience to God - some form of rejection of God's authority.’
     • ‘The writer of the poems marks parental rejection with astounding empathy.’
     • ‘Negative communication styles by parents, parental rejection, or low parental support were also related to adolescent girls' aggression.’
     • ‘Initially crushed by the rejection, Regine later married the successful philosopher Fritz Schlegel.’
     • ‘The next day, instead of ringing her and facing possible rejection and humiliation, he texts her.’
     • ‘He sighed, feeling sympathy for a man who had been totally in love and now was suffering the misery of total rejection.’
     • ‘In many ways, St Valentine's Day is an easy out, a way to express emotions without feeling vulnerable, or really any risk of rejection.’
     • ‘He lay in bed, clutching himself, trying to dull the ache of rejection.’
     • ‘Explaining Elizabeth's rejection of him, he invoked the standards of newly popular sentimental literature saying.’
     • ‘I think this is the part of pain that is really very similar to the way we feel following rejection.’
     • ‘But unlike face-to-face hemming and hawing, the Facebook rejection is polite but direct.’
     • ‘She is trying to manage her ageing mother and he's trying to cope with losing his job and rejection by his daughter.’
     • ‘Should I swallow my pride and ask him out, at the risk of rejection, heartbreak, or alienation?’
     • ‘John suffers continual rejection by his mother, who perceives and treats him markedly differently to his brother.’
     • ‘Aware that his anger over the manner of her rejection was all the more justified, having absorbed the contents of his letter, she was amazed at what had then transpired.’
     • ‘There will be no more hatred, no more suffering; no more failure, defeat, rejection - only vindication.’