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look the other way
verb as in condone
verb as in disregard
Strong matches
verb as in ignore
verb as in neglect
Strong matches
verb as in overlook
Example Sentences
People, basically out of fear, look the other way, trying to suppress things they see, and forget.
“Devil in Disguise” also unpacks the details of the twice-married Gacy before his killing spree, and all the troubling signs were there, even if everyone around him chose to look the other way.
“They’re paying me enough money to look the other way. Do you understand? Look the other way,” he said on his podcast.
“Every day I see our communities struggling to make ends meet, working two and three jobs like my mother did, and like I did to support myself through college, while establishment Democrats look the other way to please their corporate donors,” she said.
“These songs arrived, and I couldn’t look the other way. It was an instinct that was stronger than me, a now-or-never moment,” says Del Real.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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