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shunned

[ shuhnd ]

adjective

  1. avoided by people out of dislike, mistrust, disapproval, etc.:

    We might get more people to join the much shunned hospitality sector if wages were increased.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of shun.

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Other Words From

  • un·shunned adjective

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Word History and Origins

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Example Sentences

Before Cuba was shunned and sanctioned, it was a handy place for the randy.

Now the center was being used for “Ebola orphans” – lost children, shunned children, distressed children.

By contrast, in the 2010 midterm election, the GOP embraced super PACs while Democrats shunned them.

Women Living with Incurable STDs, argues that women are more often shunned when it comes to an STI.

Or the person may have been sustained, but mercilessly mocked and shunned in life.

The secretary trembled in his every limb; his eyes shunned his master's as his master's had shunned Garnache's awhile ago.

And treaties, of whatever kind with the enemies of God, that are condemned, are to be shunned as a snare to the soul.

To-day he is left entirely alone, pitied by some, shunned by a few, and almost forgotten by the large majority.

He meanwhile shunned the public gaze with a haughty shyness which inflamed curiosity.

Edinburgh is the only town in Great Britain, which I have visited, whose streets are not shunned by respectable people at night.

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