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Synonyms & Antonyms for reject
Synonyms: Verb
decline, deny, disallow, disapprove, negative, nix, refuse, reprobate, withhold
Synonyms: Noun
castaway, castoff, leper, offscouring, outcast, pariah
Antonyms: Verb
allow, concede, grant, let, OK (or okay), permit
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Examples of reject in a Sentence
Verb
My teacher rejected my excuse for being late. The committee rejected my proposal. The produce inspector rejected several crates of berries that had begun to grow mold. The college rejects hundreds of applicants each year. We rejected 5 of the 10 job applicants right away.Noun
Stack the promising applications here, and put the rejects over there. was the school reject as a child and has low self-esteem even today
Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
As well as rejecting his motion to hold an early general election, parliament voted on Monday to force Johnson's senior aides to disclose their private communications on all matters concerning the suspension of Parliament. — Luke Mcgee, CNN, "Boris Johnson is out of Brexit ideas," 10 Sep. 2019 Bolton has not opposed reducing the current U.S. troop level to 8,600 - about the number in Afghanistan when Trump took office - but rejects any deal with the Taliban. — Karen Deyoung, Anchorage Daily News, "Collapse of Afghanistan peace talks spotlights internal Trump administration divisions," 9 Sep. 2019 Opposition to the backstop was a key reason Britain's Parliament rejected May's Brexit deal with the EU three times earlier this year. — Jill Lawless, chicagotribune.com, "After another Brexit defeat, Boris Johnson suspends Parliament in a drastic move," 9 Sep. 2019 Johnson insists Britain must leave the E.U. in 55 days, and says an election is the only way to break the deadlock that has seen lawmakers repeatedly reject the divorce deal on offer, but also block attempts to leave the E.U. without one. — Fox News, "Watch: British PM Boris Johnson confronted by heckler over Brexit," 7 Sep. 2019 Almena and Harris were set to agree to a plea deal last year that would have seen them serve nine and six years in prison, respectively, but a judge rejected the deal after an impassioned outcry from several of the victims’ families. — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, "Ghost Ship verdict: Jury acquits one defendant, deadlocks on second in warehouse fire that killed 36," 5 Sep. 2019 In rejecting the student athletes’ challenge to the NCAA’s call that student athletes are not their employees, the two courts reviewed the relationship between the NCAA and student athletes from different sides of the ball. — Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, "9th Circuit: College football players not NCAA employees," 2 Sep. 2019 This year, Empower Texans filed another lawsuit in its quest for media legitimacy, suing Rep. Charlie Geren, who is chairman of House administration, in federal court for rejecting the Texas Scorecard’s request for House media credentials. — Dallas News, "Michael Quinn Sullivan's secret audio of Texas House speaker blurs line between journalism, activism," 22 Aug. 2019 These areas and more were covered in a withdrawal agreement that Johnson’s predecessor, Theresa May, negotiated with the E.U., but Parliament rejected that deal three times. — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, "The Double Dishonesty of Boris Johnson’s Brexit Proposals," 22 Aug. 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Radamel Falcao, that reject of both Manchester United and Chelsea descent, was up first. — SI.com, "Reliving England's Hoodoo-Breaking World Cup Penalty Shootout Win Over Colombia One Year on," 3 July 2019 His work explores the freak, the outsider, the reject. — Ashley Hoffman, Time, "A Giant Hand Has Appeared Atop a Building in New Zealand, and the Internet Is Shaking," 19 Aug. 2019 Donald Trump, the slumlord turned reality television reject currently occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. — Kirsten West Savali, Essence, "White Supremacist In-Chief Refuses To Apologize To Exonerated Five," 18 June 2019 So, men that have had it in their genital area and any of their limbs have been kind of suffering in silence and kind of feeling like a reject in a sense. — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, "The Bachelorette’s Cam On Lymphedema, The ‘Pity Rose,’ And His Catchphrase," 5 June 2019 Auto-parts maker O&K American says its reject rate for Japanese steel is 0.001% compared to 0.174% for U.S. supplies. — The Editorial Board, WSJ, "Trump’s Political Tariff Bureaucracy," 6 Aug. 2018 In a nation obsessed with soccer, most of the 84 members are rejects from their school teams. — Matt Blomberg, latimes.com, "There's a reason that the soccer team rescued from a cave in Thailand was so tough and resilient," 11 July 2018 Sometimes the fruit and vegetables aren’t aesthetic rejects. — Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Produce that looks funny but tastes the same will be sold in Milwaukee at discounted prices," 15 June 2018 Here’s a list of five that impressed the judges — Simon Cowell, Heidi Klum, Mel B and Howie Mandel — enough to earn a trip to the next round, and a bonus reject. — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, "'America's Got Talent:' The 5 craziest auditions, plus that just-too-weird reject," 19 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'reject.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.