"direct rejection" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to a situation where someone says "no" to a request in an unambiguous and straightforward manner. For example, "The supervisor gave a direct rejection to the employee's request for a raise."
Direct rejection: Submitted manuscripts can be rejected without detailed comments after initial review by an editor if the manuscripts are considered inappropriate or of insufficient importance for publication in the EJN.
After all, as dating and relationship experts counsel, direct rejection is the most effective, kindest way to part.
There are welcome flashes of speed-metal and less welcome flashes of melodic hard rock that are a direct rejection of this band's strengths.
"Correct," Bethenny said, turning lawyerly, leveling her gaze, widening her eyes and pursing her lips in what seemed to be direct rejection of Kelly's head bobbing, hair flipping and great gusts of fake laughter.
But Jim Crow — the system of state and local laws to enforce segregation that were placed on the books as a direct rejection of the abolition of slavery — extended up through 1965.
"It simultaneously represents a usurpation of Congress' power to write the laws and a direct rejection of the judicial branch's authority to rein in an agency when it exceeds its authority.
Most of them were not direct rejections to universal and mandatory preschool policies but rather concerns regarding high-quality issues.
Politicians can't help taking a loss as a direct personal rejection, and it goes to the core of their being.
In addition to direct social rejection [ 16], more subtle mechanisms which produce the same outcomes have been studied.
Thus, according to the modified labelling perspective, stigma expectations can produce negative consequences even if no direct social rejection or discrimination takes place.
Trying to direct and write involves "rejection after rejection after rejection and it is scary.
