Sentence examples for of refute from inspiring English sources

refudiate: Another Palinism, this time a blend of refute and repudiate.

The Guardian style guide says of "refute": use this much abused word only when an argument is disproved.

Not just outright misspellings but use of refute instead of rebut, disinterested instead of uninterested, hung instead of hanged.

(Mandelson had an entertaining exchange with John Humphrys on the Today programme this week about the correct use of refute and rebut).

Can Skepticism Be Refuted?.The Refutation of Skepticism, Jonathan Vogel (Amherst College).The Challenge of Refuting Skepticism, Richard Fumerton (University of Iowa).4.4

Quiggin does an admirable job of refuting this claim.

That is, it is a way of refuting Marx's idea about monopoly capitalism.

A group of younger psychologists and biologists took on the challenge of refuting their claims.

Three researchers nevertheless think that they have found a novel way of refuting it.

Prototype does not do a great job of refuting that characterization.

They remained healthy, thus doing a compelling, if somewhat revolting, job of refuting the alternative hypothesis.