Sentence examples similar to offered a polite refusal from inspiring English sources

She walked gingerly down the steps, then offered a polite, royal wave with her white-gloved left hand.

Murray, tall even for an Englishman, had to hunch over to shake my hand, and he offered a polite smile as he beckoned me up to the library.

Washington had first offered to send humanitarian aid via nongovernment bodies, but Havana replied with a polite refusal and a counteroffer to buy food and medicines with cash.

"A year ago, we could not have anticipated that a polite refusal would result in our family being pursued through the courts by a publicly-funded quango," he said.

(Callers get a polite refusal).

He grants some interviewers a phone chat, while others get a polite refusal.

Flabbergasted, I stammered out what I hoped was a polite refusal.

That's probably partly down to a (polite) refusal to compromise what he does for the sake of commercial gain.

Sullivan's secretary sent the World a bill for fictitious extra expenses which was returned with a polite refusal to pay.

At 20 Across, for example, we have the clue "Response to a polite refusal"/"(next line) It's spelled out in a Tammy Wynette hit".

As a patron of the National Secular Society and profoundly anti-religious, I should have had no problem in scribbling Church Action a polite refusal.