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spurned

/spurnd/US // spɜrnd //

唾弃的,被抛弃的,唾弃的人,唾弃

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : treated or rejected with scorn or contempt:It should be instructive to us that some of the spurned recommendations were very effective when belatedly implemented years after they were made.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbturn away; ignore

Examples

  • Both candidates have pledged to sign the security pact that outgoing President Hamid Karzai has spurned.

  • But Bush administration neocons, salivating over regime change in Iran, spurned this extraordinary deal.

  • To the fury of the old guard, he spurned the right wing of his party to win the Republican presidential nomination in 1940.

  • Eli Lake on the years of mistrust (and spurned cash) between the two nations.

  • The lesson is this: Spurned lovers have a tendency to go ballistic.

  • He spurned the bundle with his foot, while the stranger stopped suddenly, as if a blow had been struck him.

  • In a strong man's love for his home and his mate was it rooted, and drew therefrom the wormwood of love thwarted and spurned.

  • He ate irregularly, of such things as he could put his hands upon; and sleep fled from him like a mistress spurned.

  • Elizabeth spurned this indirect mode of acknowledging herself guilty.

  • They then reviled him, and spurned him away from their sight, and began to meditate measures of violence against him.