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shunned

/shuhn/US // ʃʌn //UK // (ʃʌn) //

被避开的,被避开,避之不及的,避之唯恐不及

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    shunned, shun·ning.

    • : to keep away from, from motives of dislike, caution, etc.; take pains to avoid.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbavoid, ignore

Examples

  • Amazon’s push comes as consumers are shunning stores and ordering more items online, a trend the coronavirus pandemic has accelerated.

  • It’s a workplace that embraces rather than shuns the cliché parts of psychedelic culture, says research coordinator and former grad student Ian Geithner.

  • The problem for Ramaswamy is that he wants to charge a monthly subscription fee to support Neeva, which admirably promises to shun ads and the kind of data collection that Google now relies upon.

  • I was avoided, not given important assignments, and generally shunned.

  • To be sure, that’s partly a function of lockdowns that left restaurants and bars shuttered, and air travel widely shunned.

  • Before Cuba was shunned and sanctioned, it was a handy place for the randy.

  • Now the center was being used for “Ebola orphans” – lost children, shunned children, distressed children.

  • By contrast, in the 2010 midterm election, the GOP embraced super PACs while Democrats shunned them.

  • Women Living with Incurable STDs, argues that women are more often shunned when it comes to an STI.

  • Or the person may have been sustained, but mercilessly mocked and shunned in life.

  • The secretary trembled in his every limb; his eyes shunned his master's as his master's had shunned Garnache's awhile ago.

  • And treaties, of whatever kind with the enemies of God, that are condemned, are to be shunned as a snare to the soul.

  • To-day he is left entirely alone, pitied by some, shunned by a few, and almost forgotten by the large majority.

  • He meanwhile shunned the public gaze with a haughty shyness which inflamed curiosity.

  • Edinburgh is the only town in Great Britain, which I have visited, whose streets are not shunned by respectable people at night.