Learn English – What do you call a person who refuses to do something/certain things

single-word-requests

You can't call someone a "refuser"… right? So what do you call someone who repeatedly refuses to do something, or certain things, that s/he is asked or required to do?

Note: It's not just that s/he expresses his/her objection, or avoids doing whatever it is s/he's requested to do – s/he outright refuses.

Best Answer

The American Heritage Dictionary offers at least an informal sense of refusenik as

  1. Informal A person who refuses to do something.

The great literary exemplar is the title character in Herman Melville’s short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street.”

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