#rejection.speech_act  the speech act of rejecting
  supertype:  #speech_act  the use of language to perform some act
  subtype:  #repudiation__renunciation  rejecting as invalid
     subtype:  #disclaimer  (law) a voluntary repudiation of a person's legal claim to something
     subtype:  #disownment__disowning  refusal to acknowledge as one's own
  subtype:  #rebuff__snub__repulse  an instance of driving away or warding off
  subtype:  #summary_treatment__summarytreatment__short_shrift__shortshrift  a brief and unsympathetic rejection; "they made short shrift of my request"

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