Refuted
[ri'fju:tid]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Refute
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Examples
- On one occasion a correspondent put in my mouth the very charge I had so often refuted--of disloyalty. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- And public opinion, on this occasion, is not easily refuted. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Yet the chief of these reasons may perhaps be refuted by the imperfections of the performance. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The objection that popular government cannot be conducted without the two party system is, I believe, refuted by the experience of Europe. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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