1. Refusal
I interpreted her silence as a refusal.
I had expected an outright refusal, but to my surprise she agreed.
Your refusal to help complicated matters.
He gave a firm refusal.
These conditions amount to refusal.
What she wants to say just adds up to a refusal.
A strike is a mass refusal to work by a body of employees.
The ordering party shall inform applying contractors about refusal to accept their applications.
In this case I can accept no refusal.
I've expected an approval, but I've received a refusal
Our request met with a refusal from the authorities.
In this case I can accept no refusal. (W tym przypadku nie mogę zaakceptować żadnej odmowy. I can't understand his refusal to go with us. (Nie mogę zrozumieć jego odmowy, żeby pójść z nami.)
he became tired of his friend’s refusal to see him
the refusal of a request/an invitation/an offer
His reply was in effect a refusal.
2. refused
Although the proposal seemed like a good idea, they refused it.
She had no incentive to work after she was refused a promotion.
I regret to inform you that your application has been refused.
Joan of Arc refused to renounce her belief that the voice she heard was from God and none other.
I refused absolutely.
And since she refused to accept it, she had been living in extreme discomfort, exclaiming: "Why should we spend all the capital we are ever likely to have tying ourselves down to a place we detest!"
Though I refused repeatedly, he insisted that I should go there.
I categorically refused.
I had words with the manager of that store, because he refused to refund my money for the TV set that wasn't operating properly.
He would still be alive had he refused to go to the battlefield then.
Girls are more likely than boys to be malnourished, suffer poverty, face violence and be refused an education, according to a new report.
Tom couldn't make the grade with Mary; she refused him when he asked her for a date.
It is only the poor who pay cash. That's not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
Pentagon officials won't say when the problem turned up and refused to discuss details about the flight.
Almost all workers refused to work during the night.