refute or reject
To refute someone’s argument is to prove it incorrect. If you attempt no such proof but simply disagree with an argument the word you want is “reject.”
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refute vs reject :
Definitions
- v overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof
The speaker refuted his opponent's arguments - v prove to be false or incorrect
- n the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality
- v refuse to accept or acknowledge
I reject the idea of starting a war
The journal rejected the student's paper - v refuse to accept
- v deem wrong or inappropriate
- v reject with contempt
- v resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
His body rejected the liver of the donor - v refuse entrance or membership
Black people were often rejected by country clubs - v dismiss from consideration or a contest
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- Thousands Of Firms Trade Confidential Data With The US Government In Exchange For Classified Intelligence
The rabbit hole just got deeper. A whole lot deeper. On Sunday we predicated that "there's one reason why the administration, James Clapper and the NSA should just keep their mouths shut as the PRISM-gate fallout escalates: with every incremental attempt to refute some previously unknown facet of the US Big Brother state, a new piece of previously unleaked information from the same intelligence ...
June 14, 2013 - Zero Hedge - Soccer God Messi Denies Tax Fraud Allegations on Facebook
After being accused of tax fraud in Spain, international soccer demigod Lionel Messi took to Facebook to refute the allegations Spanish tax authorities on Wednesday accused the FC Barcelona and Argentine national team superstar and his father of weaseling out of more than $5 million in taxes between 2006 and 2009, according to Reuters . The pair is accused of using shell corporations in Uruguay ...
June 12, 2013 - Mashable - Soccer God Messi Denies Tax Fraud Allegations on Facebook
After being accused of tax fraud in Spain, international soccer demigod Lionel Messi took to Facebook to refute the allegations Spanish tax authorities on Wednesday accused the FC Barcelona and Argentine national team superstar and his father of weaseling out of more than $5 million in taxes between 2006 and 2009, according to Reuters . The pair is accused of using shell corporations in Uruguay ...
June 12, 2013 - Mashable
- Colombia: Congress should reject law reforming the military justice system
Members of Colombia ’s Congress should reject a proposed law which will shield members of the armed forces and the police from justice for crimes under international law. June 12, 2013 Members of Colombia ’s Congress should reject a proposed law whose purpose is to give greater powers to the military justice system and which will shield members of the armed forces and the police from justice for ...
June 12, 2013 - Amnesty International - Democrats reject GOP No Child Left Behind option
Democrats reject GOP No Child Left Behind option Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 1:56 pm, Tuesday, June 11, 2013 WASHINGTON (AP) — The good intentions of No Child Left Behind have not yielded good policy, the Democratic chairman of the Senate education panel said Tuesday as ...
June 12, 2013 - San Francisco Chronicle - Democrats reject GOP No Child Left Behind option
Democrats reject GOP No Child Left Behind option Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 1:56 pm, Tuesday, June 11, 2013 WASHINGTON (AP) — The good intentions of No Child Left Behind have not yielded good policy, the Democratic chairman of the Senate education panel said Tuesday as ...
June 12, 2013 - San Francisco Chronicle