shunned

Verb

The word is derived from shun

Meaning

of Shun

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Examples

It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something that they are showing the way when they are running away that they see the light when they feel the heat that they are chosen when they are shunned. Eric Hoffer

There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned. Anthony Trollope

Thus action serves as anodyne, whereas contemplation is revealed as the most direct form of involvement, and therefore much shunned by men. Robert Sheckley

At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia. Philip Zimbardo

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions. Plato

My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives. Jim Goldberg

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