What is the difference between declining or rejecting?

Where do we use decline and reject?

I don’t want a proposal

submitted. This is a personal preference. How do you say that?

Your proposal was rejected. Help’s get a quick solution.
Your proposal is rejected. Are you aware?

How can I tell when my article has been rejected in the NYT?

I’m writing an article. Now it’s rejected. I’m in NYT.
My article is rejected by N.Y. Times. What happened?

How can 1 express if she didn’t accept my love?

What’s interesting is that rehearsing is wrong? Maybe I should invite her back. I should tell her what it is like to have discussed. But she declined. I would like your opinion.
Yes, that’s true. I proposed to her, but she rejected. Since then, she will never be involved in my life.

Is rejection better than decline?

What is your opinion about the 1st sword?

Asked on September 19, 2021 in Word choice.
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Definitions from TFD :

Refuse: To indicate unwillingness to do, accept, give, or allow

Reject: To refuse to accept, submit to, believe or make use of.

To indicate polite refusal. Decline: To express polite refusal.

Are all synonyms? If given a specific meaning to accepting, receiving, or examining something, how

is it used in synonyms?

Refus usually implies determination and sometimes brusqueness: “The commander… I don’t talk about questions of right” ‘(George Bancroft) I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse” (Mario Puzo).

To decline is to refuse courteously: “I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters… “And now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize” (Sinclair Lewis)

What’s the meaning of rejection, the discarding of something… or something as defective or useless, it implies categoric refusal: “He again offered himself for enlistment and was again rejected” (Arthur S.M. Hutchinson).

If I have to put the difference in my words I would say:

Refusal usually implies determination and may or may not result in the final action.

Eg.

Still forced to join group.

Could a decision to reject or decline be considered as a result of refusal or refusal.

Rejection is often blunt while decline implies polite act of refusal.

What is the difference? How is it explained with the sentence by sentence?

If the girl was polite that she would accept the offer but refused. What if she didn’t listen to the guy? If she threw vodka on the guy’s face then she rejected. What was her reaction? (wink wink)

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Answered on October 5, 2021.
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Definitions from TFD :

Refuse: To indicate unwillingness to do, accept, give, or allow

Reject: To refuse to accept, submit to, believe or make use of.

To indicate polite refusal. Decline: To express polite refusal.

Are all synonyms? If given a specific meaning to accepting, receiving, or examining something, how

is it used in synonyms?

Refus usually implies determination and sometimes brusqueness: “The commander… I don’t talk about questions of right” ‘(George Bancroft) I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse” (Mario Puzo).

To decline is to refuse courteously: “I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters… “And now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize” (Sinclair Lewis)

What’s the meaning of rejection, the discarding of something… or something as defective or useless, it implies categoric refusal: “He again offered himself for enlistment and was again rejected” (Arthur S.M. Hutchinson).

If I have to put the difference in my words I would say:

Refusal usually implies determination and may or may not result in the final action.

Eg.

Still forced to join group.

Could a decision to reject or decline be considered as a result of refusal or refusal.

Rejection is often blunt while decline implies polite act of refusal.

What is the difference? How is it explained with the sentence by sentence?

If the girl was polite that she would accept the offer but refused. What if she didn’t listen to the guy? If she threw vodka on the guy’s face then she rejected. What was her reaction? (wink wink)

(pronounce)

Answered on October 6, 2021.
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Definitions from TFD :

Refuse: To indicate unwillingness to do, accept, give, or allow

Reject: To refuse to accept, submit to, believe or make use of.

To indicate polite refusal. Decline: To express polite refusal.

Are all synonyms? If given a specific meaning to accepting, receiving, or examining something, how

is it used in synonyms?

Refus usually implies determination and sometimes brusqueness: “The commander… I don’t talk about questions of right” ‘(George Bancroft) I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse” (Mario Puzo).

To decline is to refuse courteously: “I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters… “And now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize” (Sinclair Lewis)

What’s the meaning of rejection, the discarding of something… or something as defective or useless, it implies categoric refusal: “He again offered himself for enlistment and was again rejected” (Arthur S.M. Hutchinson).

If I have to put the difference in my words I would say:

Refusal usually implies determination and may or may not result in the final action.

Eg.

Still forced to join group.

Could a decision to reject or decline be considered as a result of refusal or refusal.

Rejection is often blunt while decline implies polite act of refusal.

What is the difference? How is it explained with the sentence by sentence?

If the girl was polite that she would accept the offer but refused. What if she didn’t listen to the guy? If she threw vodka on the guy’s face then she rejected. What was her reaction? (wink wink)

(pronounce)

Answered on September 30, 2021.
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Definitions from TFD :

Refuse: To indicate unwillingness to do, accept, give, or allow

Reject: To refuse to accept, submit to, believe or make use of.

To indicate polite refusal. Decline: To express polite refusal.

Are all synonyms? If given a specific meaning to accepting, receiving, or examining something, how

is it used in synonyms?

Refus usually implies determination and sometimes brusqueness: “The commander… I don’t talk about questions of right” ‘(George Bancroft) I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse” (Mario Puzo).

To decline is to refuse courteously: “I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters… “And now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize” (Sinclair Lewis)

What’s the meaning of rejection, the discarding of something… or something as defective or useless, it implies categoric refusal: “He again offered himself for enlistment and was again rejected” (Arthur S.M. Hutchinson).

If I have to put the difference in my words I would say:

Refusal usually implies determination and may or may not result in the final action.

Eg.

Still forced to join group.

Could a decision to reject or decline be considered as a result of refusal or refusal.

Rejection is often blunt while decline implies polite act of refusal.

What is the difference? How is it explained with the sentence by sentence?

If the girl was polite that she would accept the offer but refused. What if she didn’t listen to the guy? If she threw vodka on the guy’s face then she rejected. What was her reaction? (wink wink)

(pronounce)

Answered on October 4, 2021.
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