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)
Kanji used
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Pitch accent
とわ
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Used in vocabulary (3 in total)
to turn someone down (on some pretext) without offending them; to refuse gracefully; to decline politely
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.
He was refused medical treatment.
He refused to shake hands.
She refused to go with me.
We have broken off relations with them.
Why was I turned down for the job?
It was a mistake to refuse his assistance.
She turned down his proposal.
Mary declined an invitation to the concert.
He applied for the job but was turned down on the spot.
I don't know whether to accept or refuse.
He declined my request, saying that he was busy.
In other words, she wants to refuse the proposal.
She had no choice but to turn down his proposal.
I've heard Jim rejected the proposal.
To my surprise, he refused my offer.
I couldn't help but turn down his offer.
Why did you turn down his request for a pay raise?
To put it briefly, she turned down his proposal.
Do you refuse to leave with us?
It was hard for me to refuse his request.
The offer is too good to turn down.
I politely turned down his offer and hung up.
The teacher declined to let the lazy boy attend his class.
We wanted to speak to the president of the company, but he refused to speak to us.
I had to decline the invitation because I was sick.
Nobody knows why he turns down my help.
He asked her to marry him, which proposal she refused.
I wonder why Tom turned down that job.
He refused my offer for no good reason.
Robert was so busy he had to turn down an invitation to play golf.
"You need to learn to say no." "No, I don't have to."
Although the proposal seemed like a good idea, they refused it.
I think he's making a big mistake by turning down the job.
I refused to eat until my parents came home.
In a sense you are right in refusing to join that club.
I can't understand why John turned down a job as good as that.
I've already said no.
I am surprised that she refused such a good offer.