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As you do not want to break off the friendship, ignoring the rudeness is the politest course — and requires no defense on your part.

Ignoring people you hooked up with at Shooters when encountering them on campus is a quintessential Duke experience.

But in doing so, are they ignoring other liberal alternatives to Hillary Clinton?

For Cuomo, the strategy of ignoring Teachout—quite literally in some cases—made a certain amount of sense.

Schultz repeatedly hit Christie for “ignoring his constituents” and the economic problems in his state.

His fellow citizens, ignoring him, bring it into their city.

And if the convention was ignored, as it sometimes was, Hugo alone had the right to begin the ignoring of it.

Kant exaggerates the dualism: Rousseau would abolish it by ignoring the more important of the two antitheses.

Meanwhile the launch, ignoring the continued fire of the enemy, kept to the far side of the river and steamed down to Elmina.

He clapped Kurt on the shoulder, ignoring the damp gray grimy feeling of the clammy T-shirt under his palm.

"I think we have had rather more than a capful these last two days," replied Ralph, ignoring the insulting language.