spurn
IPA: spˈɝn
noun
- An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
- A kick; a blow with the foot.
- (obsolete) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
- (mining) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
- (transitive) To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
- (transitive) To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To kick or toss up the heels.
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Examples of "spurn" in Sentences
- She spurns the lovelorn.
- This indirectly contributed to spurn.
- Charlie Strong spurned Tennessee offer.
- Does the Portuguese Federation spurn him
- Bellmawr voters spurn roof replacement project.
- Retailers spurn plea by farmers to 'buy Irish'.
- Rotorua retailers spurn latest legal high craze.
- He spurned the love of women, and this proved his bane.
- Foes of Egypt's Islamist president spurn dialogue offer.
- Devoted to the memory of his beloved, Hippolito spurns her.
- Readdy did not "spurn" the offer for imagery - he simply did not pursue it.
- His "noble" act is to spurn Marcia who remains in love and dedicated to him.
- Many of the Serim have hidden from the outside world, choosing to spurn its evil, licentious ways.
- Committee lowered the Federal Reserve Interest Rate during the early '90's to "spurn" the economy out of the then post Gulf War recession.
- He professed to have veered from the "old, foul road" down which language must drag itself, but is it not possible that what he was turning from was precisely his love of language, a luxury that his ascetic soul felt obliged to spurn?
- Deal Journal Bostock's Letter to Shareholders Yahoo's Bostock Letter — Reading Between the Lines Mr. Bostock, who helped spurn Microsoft Corp.'s 2008 bid to buy Yahoo for more than twice it's worth today, said in a statement the moves will help speed the company's transformation under new Chief Executive Scott Thompson , the former president of eBay's Pay Pal unit hired by Yahoo last month.
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