shun
IPA: ʃˈʌn
verb
- (transitive) To avoid, especially persistently; ostracize.
- (transitive) To escape (a threatening evil, an unwelcome task etc).
- (transitive) To screen, hide.
- (transitive) To shove, push.
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Examples of "shun" in Sentences
- She shunned herself from the world.
- Women in Nsanje shun family planning.
- Ratton pupils shun Google in tax protest.
- Gao Shun was an unblemished and pure person.
- Mirwaiz asks world to shun double standards.
- He hated or shunned all display of saintliness.
- The threat of shunning is a powerful and coercive one.
- Did anybody notice Palin shun Fey at the end of the show?
- He believed in the strict adherence to the ban or shunning.
- The article on shunning should link to the article on anathema.
- Shunning is a non-action -- to shun is to avoid, not to interact.
- Adultery is severely shunned in the teachings of the Nation of Islam.
- However, Paladino was not the party leader's choice and he, too, will learn first hand what the word 'shun' means.
- The thing I like about this list of records-to-shun is that it avoids the obvious targets (Manilow, Kenny G) and goes after worshipped bands like Nirvana and Green Day.
- Most significantly, of course, Bishop's poem supplies the missing moral of Wordsworth's tale of a rural village's deliberate "shun" - ning of the outcast woman's loss and pain: "Love should be put into action!"
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