Thesaurus / upstage
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Few are native-born New Yorkers, and scarcely any of them go around with their noses in the air in an "upstage Eastern manner."
IF YOU DON'T WRITE FICTIONCHARLES PHELPS CUSHING
Single rose-coloured corduroy curtain for archway up R. hung on upstage side of arch.
MR. PIM PASSES BYALAN ALEXANDER MILNE
Upstage, burned a driftwood fire in a low hearth of rough bricks; Judge Tiffany sat there, in a spindle-backed chair, reading.
THE READJUSTMENTWILL IRWIN
A similar door, opening into the bedroom of the shack, upstage right.
WORDS RELATED TO UPSTAGE
- affront
- blink at
- brush off
- chill
- contemn
- cool
- cut
- despise
- discount
- disdain
- disparage
- disregard
- fail
- flout
- forget
- give the brush
- give the cold shoulder to
- ignore
- make light of
- neglect
- not give time of day
- omit
- overlook
- pooh-pooh
- reject
- scoff
- scorn
- show disrespect
- shrug off
- skip
- slur
- sneeze at
- snub
- treat with contempt
- turn deaf ear to
- upstage
- act cool
- boycott
- brush off
- burr
- censure
- chill
- cool
- cut
- cut dead
- disdain
- disregard
- duck
- give the brush
- humble
- humiliate
- ice
- ice out
- ignore
- look coldly upon
- look right through
- mortify
- neglect
- not give time of day
- offend
- ostracize
- pass up
- put down
- put the chill on
- rebuff
- scold
- scorn
- scratch
- shame
- shun
- slight
- slur
- snob
- swank
- upstage
- act cool
- boycott
- brush off
- burr
- censure
- chill
- cool
- cut
- cut dead
- disdain
- disregard
- duck
- give the brush
- humble
- humiliate
- ice
- ice out
- ignore
- look coldly upon
- look right through
- mortify
- neglect
- not give time of day
- offend
- ostracize
- pass up
- put down
- put the chill on
- rebuff
- scold
- scorn
- scratch
- shame
- shun
- slight
- slur
- snob
- swank
- upstage
- act cool
- boycott
- brush off
- burr
- censure
- chill
- cool
- cut
- cut dead
- disdain
- disregard
- duck
- give the brush
- humble
- humiliate
- ice
- ice out
- ignore
- look coldly upon
- look right through
- mortify
- neglect
- not give time of day
- offend
- ostracize
- pass up
- put down
- put the chill on
- rebuff
- scold
- scorn
- scratch
- shame
- shun
- slight
- slur
- snob
- swank
- upstage
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