spurned

[ spurnd ]
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adjective
  1. 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.

verb
  1. the simple past tense and past participle of spurn.

Origin of spurned

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Other words from spurned

  • un·spurned, adjective

Words Nearby spurned

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How to use spurned in a sentence

  • He spurned the bundle with his foot, while the stranger stopped suddenly, as if a blow had been struck him.

    The Cromptons | Mary J. Holmes
  • In 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. Bower
  • He 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 Sinclair
  • Elizabeth spurned this indirect mode of acknowledging herself guilty.

  • They then reviled him, and spurned him away from their sight, and began to meditate measures of violence against him.