Dictionary of synonyms

Synonyms and antonyms of the word: refusing

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Usage examples:

A 21-year-old Kingsville man has been charged with refusing to provide a breath sample.

Source: https://sydenhamcurrent.ca/2023/02/22/police-mvc-impaired-driving-failing-to-attend-court-domestic/

A 37-year-old man of no fixed address is charged with refusing to provide a breath sample.

Source: https://www.brockvillenewswatch.com/2023/04/04/bnw-newsbrief-april-4-2023/

According to him, the developer also contravened the law by refusing to subject the site to the necessary post-approval supervision and monitoring procedures as provided for by the extant law.

Source: https://dailypost.ng/2023/05/05/owner-of-collapsed-calabar-building-ignored-directives-govt/

According to the data, 25,168 vehicles, including taxis and autos, were fined for refusing to ply, while 4,249 others were penalised for carrying additional passengers.

Source: https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/mumbai-april-saw-legal-crackdown-on-25000-taxis-autos

A federal judge has ruled against a Catholic-founded hospital in Maryland, contending that it discriminated in refusing to perform a hysterectomy on a woman who was pursuing a purported gender transition.

Source: https://www.ncregister.com/blog/finding-freedom-while-serving-hard-time-behind-bars

After a crushing decade, Ouologuem returned to Mali, where he remained resolutely silent on the matter, responding to questions about his aborted literary career with digressions or outbursts of anger, refusing even to speak French.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/books/yambo-ouologuem-bound-to-violence.html

After Becerra kept refusing to answer, Kiley asked why the feds’ required organizations to enforce the pointless mask mandates.

Source: https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/06/18/howie-carr-democrats-2024-campaign-roadmap-could-be-another-pandemic/

After discovering what was in the sack, Grim made haste to Lincolnshire after refusing to "dispose" of Havelock.

Source: https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/reason-you-see-viking-longship-8715807

After initially refusing actor Lester Blaine (a chilling Jack Palance) for a role in one of her plays, she meets him on a train and falls for him, and the pair marry soon after.

Source: https://www.slashfilm.com/1244363/the-18-best-joan-crawford-movies-ranked/

After Kim called for former President M.R.C. Greenwood’s resignation, the Legislature took the unusual step of refusing to fund negotiated faculty pay raises, putting her in an untenable budgetary bind.

Source: https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/02/19/hawaii-news/volcanic-ash/david-shapiro-dont-let-uh-become-a-plaything-for-pernicious-politicians/

After refusing to leave, the speaker asked for the Parliament’s security services to remove him.

Source: https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/parliament/ramaphosa-sona-delayed-amid-eff-disruptions/

After refusing to use his new phone, Roy was left eating his words after Nina (Mollie Gallagher) got into trouble in the river.

Source: https://metro.co.uk/2023/01/06/coronation-street-2023-spoilers-carla-death-shock-and-fiz-exit-17987673/

After two full weeks of refusing, Biden’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) finally showed up in East Palestine on February 18.

Source: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/03/13/nolte-biden-rushes-to-rescue-silicon-valley-after-ignoring-east-palestine/

Again, she was accused of making unilateral decisions and refusing to work with other directors, noting how she would rather seek counsel from retired personnel of the commission than work with the existing directors.

Source: https://allafrica.com/stories/202304030070.html

Akin Avci, who runs Hunters Home Store - a discount home-ware shop on Station Road in - says there is “a serious rubbish problem” near his business that the council “is refusing to deal with”.

Source: https://www.mylondon.news/news/north-london-news/harrow-business-owner-fined-1200-27123741

“All of this is happening while every statutory agency responsible for the lough is passing the blame and refusing to take responsibility for these problems.”

Source: https://wearetyrone.com/news/latest-news/coalisland-boat-protest-highlights-environmental-damage/

All three have come back stronger, refusing to be grounded by the weight of failure or what could have been.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11877673/Gareth-Southgate-heaps-praise-Harry-Kane-Bukayo-Saka-Marcus-Rashford.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

Also, if your order is taking a long time, it's because the restaurant workers are refusing to acknowledge us and/or putting your order on the back-burner in favor of the customers right in front of them.

Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/sydrobinson1/food-delivery-ride-share-drivers-secrets-stories

Also weighing in was Kari Lake, the failed candidate for Arizona governor whose 2022 campaign often seemed a carbon copy of the Trump playbook, right down to refusing to accept the final results.

Source: https://www.chroniclejournal.com/news/national/trump-indicted-in-stormy-daniels-case-claims-innocence-political-persecution/article_9aec65a0-462e-5827-9c80-61c7b3f8c01a.html

Although plenty of fantastic foreign-language movies are released each year, many tend not to do well in North America due to an undeniable trend of general audiences for whatever reason refusing to read subtitles.

Source: https://screenrant.com/godzilla-minus-one-movie-box-office-records-broken/