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shunned

adjective as in hated

adjective as in ostracized

Strong matches

adjective as in rejected

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Example Sentences

Before Cuba was shunned and sanctioned, it was a handy place for the randy.

Now the center was being used for “Ebola orphans” – lost children, shunned children, distressed children.

By contrast, in the 2010 midterm election, the GOP embraced super PACs while Democrats shunned them.

Women Living with Incurable STDs, argues that women are more often shunned when it comes to an STI.

Or the person may have been sustained, but mercilessly mocked and shunned in life.

The secretary trembled in his every limb; his eyes shunned his master's as his master's had shunned Garnache's awhile ago.

And treaties, of whatever kind with the enemies of God, that are condemned, are to be shunned as a snare to the soul.

To-day he is left entirely alone, pitied by some, shunned by a few, and almost forgotten by the large majority.

He meanwhile shunned the public gaze with a haughty shyness which inflamed curiosity.

Edinburgh is the only town in Great Britain, which I have visited, whose streets are not shunned by respectable people at night.

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On this page you'll find 256 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shunned, such as: deserted, discarded, dissipated, dropped, dumped, and eliminated.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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