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

Critics have shunned the contracts for blurring the line between investing and gambling.

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Old-fashioned value investors shunned options because options presumed an ability to time price movements in undervalued stocks.

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He said the claimants' complaints about the "harmful effects" were "shunned and ignored" before the nurses were "penalised and buried" in an "oppressive and ineffectual investigation process" carried out by the trust.

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Penchukov says that he noticed a distinct change in the hacker community as people shunned working with Yakubets and many of his alleged Evil Corp associates.

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Her first album Horses was for the disenfranchised and the shunned.

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Related Words

• abominable 
• inadmissible 
• loathsome 
• objectionable 
• troublesome 
• unsatisfactory 
• unsavory 
• unwanted 
• unwelcome