Or does refusing merely indicate you're a hopeless stick?

After all, Mr. Thrake merely refused to buy your processes when you first offered them to him.

Merely refusing to sign a bill can result in its enactment.

But Rome did not merely refuse to send any representative to Amsterdam.

You merely refused to take me with you.

He refused to answer Miranda's questions about his injuries and merely gave her a furious look.

I merely refuse to attach too much significance to such operations.

He says that Sparta merely refused to mint her own silver coins, and used foreign currency when necessary.

They merely refuse to respond to us in any way.

He could not merely refuse to acknowledge my feeling; he must destroy it.