Definition of Rejected

Rejected

of Reject

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Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
Benjamin Disraeli

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.
Nicolaus Copernicus

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
Omar N. Bradley

Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.
Billy Bragg

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.
Billy Bragg

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
W. Somerset Maugham

Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.
Abba Eban

Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.
Bram Cohen

You're rejected 10 to 20 times for every part you are going to get.
Loni Anderson

I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States.
Hideki Tojo

The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
Benazir Bhutto

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.
Robert Hughes

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.
Leon Uris

I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.
Shakira

Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.
Warren Farrell

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
Carl Sandburg

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.
Mikhail Kalashnikov

I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.
Hu Shih

The White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected.
Mitch McConnell

Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.
Stefan Zweig

I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.
Mark Hoppus

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.
David Rockefeller

Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
Zbigniew Brzezinski

I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.
Sting

Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
Eartha Kitt

I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it.
Theodore Sturgeon

Well, if Democratic members in the House elect Nancy Pelosi as their leader, it's almost as if they just didn't get the message from the voters this election. I mean, the voters outright rejected the agenda that she's been about. And here they're going to put her back in charge.
Eric Cantor

Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.
Natan Sharansky

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Rejected Translations

rejected in German is verwarf, reflektiert, ausgeschlagen
rejected in Spanish is rechazado
rejected in Swedish is tillbakavisad

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