Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. From LearnThat.org. [Josh Billings (1856-1950)]
My last word (I hope), is to once again refute your post at #115. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: The soft bigotry of low expectations] Reference
(You better look up the word refute – apparently, you don†™ t know the definition.). From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Bush on Low Approval: Brushes Aside Policy Concerns, Says People Are Just ‘Unsettled’] Reference
I take it by "rebut" you mean the legal sense of "refute" - but refute implies success i.e. that you have disproved my contention. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Rob, It's not just beeboids who use the word "refute" when they really mean "deny". From Wordnik.com. [LE WAR ON CAPITALISM] Reference
I'd respond to your inaccuracies point by point, but they kind of refute themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Seattle light rail: No park-and-ride lots (Jack Bog's Blog)] Reference
On "refute", I'm glad I'm not alone in chucking metaphorical brickbats whenever I hear this. From Wordnik.com. [LE WAR ON CAPITALISM] Reference
In the first stage, you create the strawperson, and "refute" it (everybody knows that trick). From Wordnik.com. ['Confusion Over Evolution': An Exchange] Reference
I wonder when they will ask Obama to "refute" these findings, it will happen soon more than likely. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Campaign: Palin's 17-Year-Old Daughter Is Pregnant] Reference
The word "refute" was one of the most misused in the English language even before Sarah Palin came along. From Wordnik.com. [Word of the day: Sarah Palin invents 'refudiate'] Reference
Over the last year or so, this "refute" error has become a real pandemic with politicians and media types. From Wordnik.com. [LE WAR ON CAPITALISM] Reference
What I'd like to see is somebody actually "refute" the lies and distortions coming out of the McCain campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Rich thinks you should be very afraid of Sarah Palin.] Reference
OSHINS: Nancy, he responded to the word "refute" by saying, "I don ` t have to review" -- review -- "anything.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 12, 2005] Reference
But obviously, listening inside, he responded to the word "refute" by saying, "I don ` t have to review anything.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 12, 2005] Reference
In this pretend conversation Galileo does not "refute" Aristotle by a practical demonstration of dropping two masses. From Wordnik.com. [our human condition "from space"] Reference
Yehuda, It is also a standard ploy in rhetoric to "refute" some obviously false assertion your opponenent did not make. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
I went to Insomnia to check out AK's games as art article, then stumbled upon his attempt to "refute" my Zelda-book blog. From Wordnik.com. [The Self, Art, and Wittgenstein] Reference
While she most likely meant "refute" or "repudiate," you will not find her innovative "refudiate" in an English dictionary. From Wordnik.com. [The Conversation: Sarah Palin And The English Dictionary] Reference
It seems apparent that she meant either "refute," or "repudiate," so it was a slip of the tongue and not a considered neologism. From Wordnik.com. [Neologistic Sarah] Reference
Palin's use of "refute" is inappropriate in its use. From Wordnik.com. [Examiner California Headlines] Reference
Palin mangled the word 'refute' but what does it mean?. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
You "refute" anything someone says by cut-n-paste cartoons. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
In a court filing, Google argues that BayTSP's documents will "refute" Viacom's. From Wordnik.com. [Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now] Reference
(You better look up the word refute – apparently, you don’t know the definition.). From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Bush on Low Approval: Brushes Aside Policy Concerns, Says People Are Just ‘Unsettled’] Reference
Having invented a word, in her second attempt she used "refute" incorrectly, calling on. From Wordnik.com. [IBN Top Headlines] Reference
THE word '' refute '' was one of the most misused in the English language even before Sarah. From Wordnik.com. [The Age News Headlines] Reference
When she marries 'refute' and 'repudiate' to create the phonetic wonder of "refudiate", we're awed. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
He added that the accounts "refute" allegations by Tbilisi of bombardments that he called mythical. From Wordnik.com. [Below The Beltway] Reference
This confused the issue - implying, as it did, that the base verb "refute" might have been what she had in mind all along. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Science Monitor | All Stories] Reference
Check out the links that "refute" Will - they include a Harvard undergrad and numerous bloggers with no credentials whatsoever. From Wordnik.com. [CJR] Reference
"Shakespeare liked to coin new words too," she said. tweet following her use of the word - something of a mix of 'refute' and 'repudiate'. From Wordnik.com. [Edmonton Sun] Reference
Rather than refute Roberts 'analogy, I think we should embrace it. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Liu: The Real Meaning of Balls and Strikes] Reference
Butler's stirring film wasn't made to refute its slanders, though it does. From Wordnik.com. [SNAP JUDGMENT: MOVIES] Reference
Instant-response e-mails and postings could quickly refute fearmongering ads. From Wordnik.com. [DEAN'S NET EFFECT IS JUST THE START] Reference
He contends that if he doesn't know who the women are, he cannot refute them. From Wordnik.com. [The Senator, The Sex Stories] Reference
All these signs refute warnings that the world faces a return to stagflation. From Wordnik.com. [It’s All About Commodities] Reference
No one could refute Norton's daintily nuanced -- though ploddingly advanced -- thesis. From Wordnik.com. [The Sachems Of Satan] Reference
This is a message Western leaders don't want to hear -- and strenuously seek to refute. From Wordnik.com. [The Perils Of Peacekeeping] Reference
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