spurned
treated or rejected with scorn or contempt:It should be instructive to us that some of the spurned recommendations were very effective when belatedly implemented years after they were made.
the simple past tense and past participle of spurn.
Origin of spurned
1Other words from spurned
- un·spurned, adjective
Words Nearby spurned
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How to use spurned in a sentence
Both candidates have pledged to sign the security pact that outgoing President Hamid Karzai has spurned.
But Bush administration neocons, salivating over regime change in Iran, spurned this extraordinary deal.
Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick On How Obama Should Handle the Crisis In Syria | Oliver Stone, Peter Kuznick | October 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTTo the fury of the old guard, he spurned the right wing of his party to win the Republican presidential nomination in 1940.
Eli Lake on the years of mistrust (and spurned cash) between the two nations.
Why Algeria Didn’t Warn the U.S. About Its Hostage Raid | Eli Lake | January 18, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe lesson is this: spurned lovers have a tendency to go ballistic.
Paula Broadwell, Eminem, & More Spurned Lovers Who Went Ballistic | Paula Froelich | November 15, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
He spurned the bundle with his foot, while the stranger stopped suddenly, as if a blow had been struck him.
The Cromptons | Mary J. HolmesIn a strong man's love for his home and his mate was it rooted, and drew therefrom the wormwood of love thwarted and spurned.
Cabin Fever | B. M. BowerHe ate irregularly, of such things as he could put his hands upon; and sleep fled from him like a mistress spurned.
Love's Pilgrimage | Upton SinclairElizabeth spurned this indirect mode of acknowledging herself guilty.
Fox's Book of Martyrs | John FoxeThey then reviled him, and spurned him away from their sight, and began to meditate measures of violence against him.
Fox's Book of Martyrs | John Foxe
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