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shunned

adjective as in ostracized

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adjective as in rejected

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Critics have shunned the contracts for blurring the line between investing and gambling.

Old-fashioned value investors shunned options because options presumed an ability to time price movements in undervalued stocks.

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He said the claimants' complaints about the "harmful effects" were "shunned and ignored" before the nurses were "penalised and buried" in an "oppressive and ineffectual investigation process" carried out by the trust.

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Penchukov says that he noticed a distinct change in the hacker community as people shunned working with Yakubets and many of his alleged Evil Corp associates.

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Her first album Horses was for the disenfranchised and the shunned.

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

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