| gen. |
give an outright denial (Anglophile); refuse outright (gabriellajd); flatly refuse (Max flatly refused to do so. ART Vancouver); refuse point-blank (He refused point-blank to provide an explanation for his behaviour. Dimitriy_R); flat out refuse (They flat out refused to talk to me. joyand); refuse out of hand (Rezanov refused out of hand to convert to Catholicism – though of course Paul I had mooted a union of the Russian and Roman Churches. VLZ_58); refuse flatly; absolutely decline ("(...) it was necessary for me, as Mycroft Holmes absolutely and indignantly declined to climb the railings, to pass in and open the hall door." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) ART Vancouver) |
