shunned

Example Sentences

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Two reasons Michelangelo shunned Raphael were his youth and good looks.

From Salon • May 16, 2026

McIlroy is a different man compared with the tetchy figure who shunned the media for much of last year's PGA.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

In the hopes of safeguarding their newborns from what they see as unnecessary medical intervention, they have shunned fundamental and scientifically sound pharmaceutical intervention.

From Salon • May 7, 2026

We’ve shunned those former doofuses and nihilists for so long, even as it becomes clear that the future of the nation hinges on bringing them along.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026

Those few Philadelphians he encountered shunned him, just as they shunned the black nurses, gravediggers, carters of the dead, doctors, bloodletters, and anyone who worked at or even visited Bush Hill.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy