Noun

• S: (n) rebuff, slight (a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval))
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• S: (n) discourtesy, offense, offence, offensive activity (a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others)
• S: (n) derision, ridicule (the act of deriding or treating with contempt)
• S: (n) indelicacy (an impolite act or expression)
• S: (n) insolence (an offensive disrespectful impudent act)
• S: (n) insult, affront (a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect) "turning his back on me was a deliberate insult"
• S: (n) presumption (a kind of discourtesy in the form of an act of presuming) "his presumption was intolerable"
• S: (n) rebuff, slight (a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval))
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) rebuff, snub, repulse (an instance of driving away or warding off)

Verb

• S: (v) rebuff, snub, repel (reject outright and bluntly) "She snubbed his proposal"
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• W: (n) rebuff [Related to: rebuff] (a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval))
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• W: (n) snub [Related to: snub] (an instance of driving away or warding off)
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• S: (v) repel, repulse, fight off, rebuff, drive back (force or drive back) "repel the attacker"; "fight off the onslaught"; "rebuff the attack"