Clues for the word "REFUSE"
We've had 57 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 130 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on September 23, 2025.
Definition of refuse
- v. t. - To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.
- v. t. - To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops ar/ about to engage the enemy; as, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks.
- v. t. - To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor.
- v. t. - To disown.
- v. i. - To deny compliance; not to comply.
- n. - Refusal.
- n. - That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.
- a. - Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.
Referring Clues
- Trash
- Decline
- Litter
- Turn down
- Worthless material
- Scow load
- Say no to
- Junk
- Garbage
- Say no
- Scraps
- Just say no to
- Just say no
- Rubbish
- Dumpster fill
- Stuff destined for the dump
- Say 'no' to
- Deny
- Will not
- Sweepings
- Don't go along
- Just say no to trash?
- Say "no" to
- Turn down garbage
- Don't accept waste
- Say no to garbage
- Disobey
- Say no to - rubbish
- Worthless, it may come to us free
- Decline to set us free again
- Don't accept people's discards
- Decline irrationally to set us free
- Some rubbish about a safety device
- Decline to set us free anew
- Say no to what you don't want
- Decline to accept - rubbish
- Say no to judge with advantage
- Decline to accept - waste
- Decline the leftovers
- Whistle-blower has to deal with trash
- At the game, can you see the ___ his whistle? Rubbish!
- Turn one's nose up at garbage
- Waste material is in decline
- Turn down, reject
- Decline, repudiate
- Decline to accept household rubbish
- Say no to litter
- Pass up rubbish
- Say "No, thanks" to
- Never accept rubbish
- Anything no good for official use
- What to do when offered rubbish
- Say they won't reintegrate
- Accept no garbage
- Decline to let us in free, possibly
- You'll withhold consent? Rubbish!
- Worthless stuff
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - September 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 14, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 17, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 07, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - April 30, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - April 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 13, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 06, 2025
- LA Times - December 28, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 19, 2024
- Daily Quick - November 07, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 01, 2024
- Daily Quick - October 29, 2024
- New York Times - October 22, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - September 18, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - July 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - May 06, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - February 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - December 21, 2023
- New York Times - October 18, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - September 23, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - August 17, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 28, 2023
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