ことわ
Meanings
Verb (5-dan, る, transitive)
1. to refuse; to reject; to dismiss; to turn down; to decline
2. to inform; to give notice; to tell in advance
3. to ask leave; to excuse oneself (from)
Pitch accent
とわ
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Used in vocabulary (2 in total)
to turn someone down (on some pretext) without offending them; to refuse gracefully; to decline politely
Examples (41 in total)
They refused.
I refused at first.
I couldn't refuse.