Refusal is a crime.

He gave a firm refusal.

He gave a flat refusal.

These conditions amount to refusal.

Your refusal to help complicated matters.

His answer amounts to a refusal.

He is very blunt in his manner.

I ended up with blunt chest trauma.

And let me be blunt about this.

It's to blunt our sense of smell.

Something straight forward and blunt you use this

I may as well be blunt with you.

He was so adamant in his refusal.

His reply was in effect a refusal.

I interpreted her silence as a refusal.

I was perfectly serious in my refusal.

She gave a flat refusal to my offer.

She gave a flat refusal to my offer.

Shoplifting is a refusal of the exchange economy.

Shoplifting is a refusal of the exchange economy.

He gave a flat refusal to his mother's request.

But, as with his refusal to enforce our immigration laws,

Fermi then went on with the same blunt logic to disprove fairies,

What she wants to say just adds up to a refusal.

I had expected an outright refusal, but to my surprise she agreed.

Y'know we're short of money to have fun and ... Well to be blunt, gimme!

A strike is a mass refusal to work by a body of employees.

It is a Yorkshire habit to say what you think with blunt frankness, and old Ben

expressing the refusal of the residents to become a victim and the resolution to seek peace.

I know that Tom can be blunt, but the more hurtful one seems to be Mary, doesn't it?

He had the aspect of one who had been soaked with what the newspaper chappies call some blunt instrument.

Chinese is a really blunt language but they can also beat around the bush to deliver a message very softly.

And yet, I do believe that in every social space, in every public space, there is a desire to communicate more than just that blunt thought, that blunt technique, but something that pinpoints, and can point in various directions forward, backward, sideways and around.

The knife was so blunt that I could not cut the meat with it and I resorted to my pocket knife.

Patient capital is uncomfortable for people searching for simple solutions, easy categories, because we don't see profit as a blunt instrument.

That knife was so blunt I couldn't use it to cut the meat so I had to rely on my pocket knife.

Could Muhammad have so radically changed his world without such faith, without the refusal to cede to the arrogance of closed minded certainty?

And when they are called to the words of Allah and His Messenger to judge between them, at once a party of them turns aside in refusal .

I come from a place where kids can buy 35 flavors of blunt wrap at any day of the moment, where ice cream freezers are filled with slushy malt liquor.

They aim their pictures at your best instincts, generosity, a sense of right and wrong, the ability and the willingness to identify with others, the refusal to accept the unacceptable.

And so I do like something which is pointed, not blunt, something which is focused on reality, something that has the power, through its leverage, to transform even a very small space.

But all of a sudden when you're dealing with an atom, reflected light you could almost view it as too big, or too blunt of an instrument with which to observe an atom.

People come to the table, and even these very blunt, staged social interactions, and they, and there's just numbers going back and forth between the people, and they bring enormous sensitivities to it.

Answer the call of your Lord before there cometh unto you from Allah a Day which there is no averting. Ye have no refuge on that Day, nor have a ye any (power of) refusal.

And lo! whenever I call unto them that Thou mayst pardon them they thrust their fingers in their ears and cover themselves with their garments and persist (in their refusal) and magnify themselves in pride.