"complete refusal" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe a situation in which someone has refused something in its entirety. For example: "After considering the proposal, the board members unanimously agreed on a complete refusal."
"This is not so much wishful thinking as a complete refusal to engage with reality.
He notes liberals' initial post-election desire to get to know Republicans, a feeling that, within months of Trump's inauguration, was replaced by a complete refusal to engage.
Travellers with stamps from countries such as Lebanon, Syria or Iran may well face long interrogations or a complete refusal from Israeli border controls.
The Green party pretends to be idealistic and ambitious but encourages defeatism with its complete refusal to accept that there has been progress in tackling climate change.
In fact, their reactions include almost complete refusal to fund medical and biological studies, even liquidating government bodies that were in charge of the 'affairs of Chernobyl'.
Unfortunately, that ambition falls at the first hurdle with the government's complete refusal to abolish the anachronism that is the bench of bishops.
Each returned envelope was classified according to the participation outcome (completed, refusal, not eligible), after which completed questionnaires were assigned a new number before data entry.
A small study in older cancer patients observed a rate of 15.2% for partial or complete treatment refusal [ 8].
Women who are not willing to participate in either part of the study are asked to complete a refusal form on which they can indicate the reason for not wanting to participate.
31/44 (70%) patients completed the refusal section of the ARQ, 8/44 (18.6%) had >2 missing answers, and 5/44 (11.4%) patients refused to complete the questionnaire without reporting any reasons.
A potential limitation in our study is the relatively small number of women completing the refusal section of the ARQ as only 25% of eligible women declined participation in the SIMS RCT.
