Thesaurus / cold shoulder
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There was Cliff Manning, you turned the cold shoulder to him because he couldnt talk grammar.
TESSA WADSWORTH'S DISCIPLINEJENNIE M. DRINKWATER(That's irony red-hot it seemeth to me); O for a turn of its dreaded cold shoulder!O what a comfort an ague would be!
THE BOOK OF HUMOROUS VERSEVARIOUSBrother,” said Heika, with a sad but earnest look, “I must give this man the cold shoulder.
THE NORSEMEN IN THE WESTR.M. BALLANTYNEI tell you, mother, we all missed a figure in turning the cold shoulder to her; and how much money she has made!
RUTH HALLFANNY FERNIt was situated upon the cold shoulder of a hill, sixteen miles from the nearest station.
MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE, JANUARY, 1896, VOL. VI. NO. 2VARIOUSIt thinks that the fact of the Times being out of Joint is the reason it is getting the cold Shoulder from its subscribers.
PUNCHINELLO, VOL. 1, NO. 6, MAY 7, 1870VARIOUSHe smokes and reads, turning an unsociable cold shoulder on the rather dry habitues of the hotel.
GUY KENMORE'S WIFE AND THE ROSE AND THE LILYMRS. ALEX MCVEIGH MILLERThen, when a man did something for England, those in power gave him the cold shoulder; the icy stare.
FAMOUS PRIVATEERSMEN AND ADVENTURERS OF THE SEACHARLES H. L. JOHNSTONAnd turning a cold shoulder on Henrietta Hen he began nibbling at a cabbage-leaf once more.
THE TALE OF HENRIETTA HENARTHUR SCOTT BAILEYThis young lady had turned as much of the back of a bare cold shoulder on Bob at the table as she could.
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTHFREDERIC S. ISHAMWORDS RELATED TO COLD SHOULDER
- abnegation
- abstaining
- adjuration
- brush-off
- cold shoulder
- contradiction
- controversion
- declination
- disaffirmance
- disaffirmation
- disallowance
- disapproval
- disavowal
- disclaimer
- dismissing
- disproof
- dissent
- forswearing
- gainsaying
- nay
- negation
- negative
- nix
- nonacceptance
- noncommittal
- prohibition
- protestation
- rebuff
- rebuttal
- refraining
- refusing
- refutal
- refutation
- rejecting
- rejection
- renegement
- renouncement
- renunciation
- repudiating
- repudiation
- repulse
- retraction
- statement
- turndown
- veto
- abnegation
- ban
- choice
- cold shoulder
- declension
- declination
- defiance
- denial
- disallowance
- disapproval
- disavowal
- disclaimer
- discountenancing
- disfavor
- dissent
- enjoinment
- exclusion
- forbidding
- interdiction
- knockback
- negation
- nix
- no
- nonacceptance
- noncompliance
- nonconsent
- option
- pass
- prohibition
- proscription
- rebuff
- refutation
- regrets
- rejection
- renouncement
- renunciation
- repudiation
- repulse
- repulsion
- reversal
- thumbs-down
- veto
- withholding
- writ
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