Keyword
refuse
Info
FrequencyTop 1200-1300
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel Pre-2
Heisig921
Readings
きょ
(74%)
こば
(25%)
Composed of
left hand
gigantic
Used in vocabulary (38 in total)
refusal; rejection; denial; veto
refusal; rejection
to refuse; to reject; to decline; to prevent (from doing); to deny (e.g. access); to block
Examples (73 in total)
I refuse to consent to that plan.
The troops refused to obey the command.
Your suggestion will be rejected by the teacher.
That he refused our proposal was big surprise to us.
When I asked him to lend me some money, he turned down my request.
And what if she rejects me?
She refused to accept the money.
She rejected my proposal.
She turned down my request.
My plan was rejected.
It is natural that he should refuse that request.
I deny his request.
He declined my proposal.
He asked her to marry him, but she refused.
He turned down our proposal.
She turned down our proposal.
He refused to give them the information.
I interpreted her silence as a refusal.
My boss turned down his proposal.
Our boss turned down our proposal.
He lost his position only because he refused to tell a lie.
She refused to speak of what had happened.
She refused to do what they wanted.
She rejected him.
He turned down her request for a day off.
She flatly refused to let him in.
The committee rejected the proposal on the ground that it was impractical.
It is strange that he should have refused the offer.
His application was rejected.
He turned down my offer.
She refused his offer.
The plan was rejected as being impractical.
Unfortunately he refused to come.
The caller refused to give us his name.
Her application for leave was refused.
The President refused to answer the question.
I refuse to answer the question.
They refused to help us.
She rejected his offer of help.
His reply was in effect a refusal.
You should have refused his request flatly.
I refused absolutely.
Carol refused; in other words her answer was "no."
The government refuses to bow to public pressure.
Not only did he refuse to help me, but also he scolded me.
You should've rejected such an unfair proposal.
Tom asked Mary some questions, but she refused to answer them.
Tom refused to follow Mary's advice.
Tom refused to go to the hospital.
Tom refuses to speak French.
The president politely declined to answer the delicate question.
I complained, but they refused to take this sweater back.
It was very sensible of him to reject the bribe.
She refused to play with it, and just sat there looking angry.
He refused to take the bribe.
She refused to take the money.
He refused our offer to arrange a press conference.
He refused to accept such an absurd proposal.
The chairman rejected his absurd proposal.
Tom refused to play with the guinea pigs.
The point is whether I accept or refuse.
He got very angry, for she refused to follow his advice.
He refused to get involved in the dispute.
The soldier refused to fire his rifle at the enemy.
Doctors refused to perform a second operation.
When the company refused to increase their wages, they walked out.
Our request for a pay raise was turned down.
A strike is a mass refusal to work by a body of employees.
Tom became anorexic when he was a high school student.
We asked him to face the press but he refused to.
I'm afraid your request for a pay raise was turned down again.
The embassy denied political asylum to foreign refugees.
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white passenger.