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• past participle of shun.
• past tense form of shun.

shunned

American  

[shuhnd] / ʃʌnd /

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.

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verb

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

Other Word Forms

• unshunned
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of shunned

shun ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

shunned

Get shunned by your community for your actions.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

Vote counting was under way early Friday after an unusual English by-election shunned by mainstream parties, pitting influential hard-right leader Nigel Farage against Count Binface, a man with a rubbish bin on his head.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

That ascendance has ratcheted up pressure on corporate leaders to take meetings with a party that many of them previously shunned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

"I probably would have had a little bit more time in between to recover, I pretty much shunned the back-to-back because we need to go back to work," she said.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

I looked up at him: he shunned my eye.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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