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Where you once cold-shouldered friends without warning, you now realize you did so out of fear that they were souring on you.

It was better to bask as a Marquis in the sunshine of the south than to be cold-shouldered as a plebeian in stately Castile.

Just the same it makes me just mad to be snubbed and cold shouldered and left out by anybody.

Some had been rather cold shouldered in certain capitals on account of embarrassing little, or big, stories.

Would he be cold-shouldered at the clubs, and treated as one whose hands were red with blood?

The outsider, I held forth, was not given a chance; the young writer with fresh ideas was cold-shouldered.

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On this page you'll find 232 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cold-shouldered, such as: blackball, blacklist, exclude, excommunicate, expel, and shun.

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

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