shrugged

Verb

The word is derived from shrug

Meaning

of Shrug

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Examples

A famous political cartoon, published the day after Reagan's landslide victory, showed Amy Carter sitting in Jimmy's lap with her shoulders shrugged asking "the economy? the hostage crisis?" Source: Internet

After Marrow told his father, Solomon shrugged, "Well, then, you ain't got no bike." Source: Internet

All these years, aside from the occasional jibe, he had pretty much shrugged off Leary's lifting. Source: Internet

Anthony Albanese has shrugged off secret meetings of pro-coal colleagues who want to push Labor further to the right. Source: Internet

As she aimed the device at my forehead, she shrugged the kind of shrug that said everything we were both thinking about what a strange time we were living in and isn’t it wonderful that we can be cooperative for the sake of one another’s wellbeing. Source: Internet

Asked about $25 million that would be set aside for D.C.’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Trump shrugged off concerns about the amount, chalking it up as the fruit of bipartisan compromise. Source: Internet

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