We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of demurral in anglès
Synonyms
Examples for "demur"
Examples for "demur"
1
Fenwick made no further demur; he accepted the conditions there and then.
2
Her voice showed doubt-thenatural demur of her young ignorance and idealism.
3
He lets things happen without demur, but he doesn't initiate such things.
4
The Krooman made the communication, and Harry without demur accepted the conditions.
5
They worked for their human or vodyanoi bosses without demur or enthusiasm.
1
He began by a demurrer, speaking archly with subtle shades of expression.
2
It was argued on demurrer to the declaration, and the defendant again prevailed.
3
The barkeeper took one look at him and filed no demurrer.
4
He turned to Brown, from whom he'd heard some whispered slur or demurrer.
5
To Will's suggestion mother entered a demurrer, but finally yielded before his insistence.
Usage of demurral in anglès
1
This demurral caused a moment of uncertainty in the convention hall.
2
He shook his head, but his demurral was more charming than someone else's assent.
3
Vronsky murmured a demurral while his left hand, hidden by his cloak, moved discreetly toward his belt.
4
Weyland shrugged off his creation's demurral.
5
The same causes of demurral existed which prevented British troops from assisting in the expulsion of the French from Rome.
6
Without preliminary or affectation or demurral she began, in rather thrilling and more deeply pitched tones to recite these lines:
7
Obama's demurral hardly matched Kennedy's ferocious denunciation of Robert Bork; such rhetoric was not his style or his political way of being.
8
Sarek had held his peace as long as he was able but, confronted with his son's astonishing demurral, could no longer remain silent.
9
She took his hand again and pulled him forward through the crowd, and he followed with no demurral, though his head was humming.
10
Temeraire ducked his head a little, and made no further demurrals, quite evidently pleased.
11
When a state Supreme Court judge (even a retired one) holds out his hand, demurrals must cease.
12
Cuomo's demurrals also part from the attention-grabbing flirtations with a run for higher office undertaken by his father, Mario.
13
Dr. Ito offered the customary thanks and demurrals and accepted the package, which contained writing supplies-theonly things he would allow Sano to give him.
14
Buttigieg said Warren's demurrals were yet another example of a "yes or no question that didn't get a yes or no answer" in Washington.
15
"No," Whitney whispered, and no one heard his demurral except Lloyd and Ralph and Larry and possibly Barry Dorgan.
16
This demurral caused a moment of uncertainty in the convention hall.
About this term
Frequent collocations
Demurral through the time