Anyone who has ever watched a dance floor can easily refute the first notion: women have as good a sense of rhythm as men.

Horace's Satires share with this genre some of their themes, typical imagery and similes, and the fiction of an anonymous interlocutor whose objections the speaker easily refutes.

You would hold yourself blameless, and I cannot easily refute that claim.

Arilan had scored a point not easily refuted; for to deny the real Presence of God in the Sacrament housed in the tabernacle was clearly blasphemy.

There was a logic to this madness that was irresistible, It was all beginning to fall into place in a tight pattern, one she could not easily refute.

The heretics easily refuted the Synthesis by which Quath had lived.

Easily refuted, ignored, dealt with.

Strawman sockpuppets typically behave in an unintelligent, uninformed, or bigoted manner and advance "straw man" arguments that their puppeteers can easily refute.

Earl Conrad claimed to have priority over Burns as the "first white man ever to work for a Negro newspaper," an assertion Burns easily refuted.

To claim that such functions are peculiar only to western cultural uses of words is plain ethnocentrism easily refuted by the evidence available.