shunned
Example Sentences
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Individuals all over the country were fired from their jobs, shunned, ostracized and run out of town for insufficient reverence for Kirk on social media.
From Salon
She asked not to be named or pictured over fears she would be shunned by her neighbours.
From BBC
Poor Bell was shunned and looked upon by the whole community as a murderer.
From Literature
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Their very presence here is an act of defiance against the sport that shunned them.
For the most part, however, until Jesse was famous, he shunned his son, who was later adopted by the man his mother married, Charles Jackson.
From Los Angeles Times
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