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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

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Etymology

Origin of shunned

shun ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

shunned

And with that, the younger brother of Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, was thrust into a media spotlight he has largely shunned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 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

Big banks are on the hunt to grow their loan books and are turning back to an area they had shunned not that long ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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

A few months after the press conference, Teller, wounded at being shunned by former friends and colleagues over his continued bellyaching, finally attempted to set the record straight in an article for Science.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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