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.

Other Word Forms

• unshunned adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of shunned¹

shun ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Working at a time when German academies shunned women, she forged a unique path forward—a journey recounted in this show, her first monographic New York museum exhibition.

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She writes: “We hadn’t made our record to garner fame and fortune. We made it for the art rats known and unknown, the marginalized, the shunned, the disowned.”

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For years, weight loss was a graveyard for drug development and shunned by large drugmakers.

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Parties approved to participate in Myanmar's junta-organised elections are set to start campaigning Tuesday, two months ahead of a poll being shunned at home and abroad as a ploy to legitimise military rule.

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Yet as the U.S. and E.U. shunned Russian oil, Moscow was able to offset the loss of revenue from the West with sales to countries such as China and India.

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