diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yml b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
index 8ea829e..ea09fab 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Run with ruff
         run: python -u -m ruff .
-      - name: Run with refurb to find code that can be written in a more modern way
-        run: python -u -m refurb .
+      # - name: Run with refurb to find code that can be written in a more modern way
+      #   run: python -u -m refurb .
       - name: Run with vulture to find dead code
         run: |
           python -c 'exec("from pathlib import Path;import shutil;import subprocess;\ntry: import tomllib;\nexcept ImportError: import tomli as tomllib;\nwith Path(\"pyproject.toml\").open(mode=\"rb\") as fp: c = tomllib.load(fp); n = c[\"project\"][\"name\"];\nif not (v := shutil.which(\"vulture\")): raise RuntimeError(\"Please first install vulture\");\nfor z in sorted({x.split(\"  # \",maxsplit=1)[0] for x in sorted(subprocess.run([y for y in [v,\".\",\".vulture_allowlist\" if Path(\".vulture_allowlist\").is_file() else \"\"] if y],capture_output=True,text=True).stdout.rstrip().splitlines()) if not x.startswith(\"# \")}): print(z)")'
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 10964e6..c30a38b 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ test = [
     "pytest-randomly ~= 3.15.0",
     "pytest-ruff ~= 0.2.1",
     "pytest-xdist ~= 3.3.1",
-    "refurb ~= 1.23.0",
+    # "refurb ~= 1.23.0",
     "ruff ~= 0.1.5",
     "sphinx ~= 7.2.6",
     "vulture ~= 2.10",