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Synonyms for shunned

Grammar : Verb
Spell : shuhn
Phonetic Transcription : ʃʌn

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Définition of shunned

Origin :
  • Old English scunian "to shun, avoid; abhor; desist, abstain; to hide, seek safety by concealment," of uncertain origin; not found in any other language. Perhaps ultimately from PIE root *skeu- "to cover, to hide." Related: Shunned; shunning. A shun-pike (American English, 1911) was a road constructed to avoid tolls.
  • verb avoid, ignore
Example sentences :
  • In June the florist's shop is a poor place, sedulously to be shunned.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • Hannah, as she moves up and down, is shunned as a person infected.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • To keep faith with John and Milly, should I have shunned him?
  • Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
  • He was puzzled, for people, while they shunned him, did not appear uncivil.
  • Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • His manner to Vargrave was distant; he shunned all tete-a-tetes with his wife.
  • Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • He had shunned her presence from the first: and she had grown now to shun him.
  • Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
  • It made him morose and gloomy, a man of one idea, to be shunned.
  • Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
  • Blatherwick's hour was on its way, slow-coming, but no longer to be shunned.
  • Extract from : « Salted With Fire » by George MacDonald
  • I shunned the society of my former companions of the same age.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Complete » by Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre
  • He shunned the long walks which he had been wont to take before his illness.
  • Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola

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