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spurning

/spurn/US // spɜrn //UK // (spɜːn) //

厌弃的,厌弃,摒弃,厌弃的人

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to reject with disdain; scorn.
    • : to treat with contempt; despise.
    • : to kick or trample with the foot.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to show disdain or contempt; scorn something.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : disdainful rejection.
    • : contemptuous treatment.
    • : a kick.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbturn away; ignore
Forms: spurned

Examples

  • LaSalvia went on to cite examples large and small of how the Republican Party had continued to spurn gay conservatives.

  • A Ted Cruz may spurn those local politicians, and instead build his campaign upon national organizations.

  • In a conversation with Charlie Rose, Melinda Gates said that foundations must act as catalysts to spurn governments into action.

  • So this group, it would seem, would spurn the GOP in November, with or without a Palin thrust.

  • Mutlaq is painfully aware that his own side will be harmed if they spurn a place at the table of the enfranchised.

  • I love to feel his body alive beneath me, love to feel him spurn the ground beneath his feet.

  • The soul appears to spurn the body, and take a transient flight without its dull associate—the—the—broke down, by Jupiter!

  • She knew he would not spurn her away: he must be kind, for she loved him dearly still.

  • Here was a woman's revenge, to bait, to charm, to spurn; and then to outwit him!

  • "Even Borroughcliffe, cold and hardened as he appears to be by habit, would spurn at such dishonor," added Miss Howard.