spurn
verb (used with object)
to reject with disdain; scorn.
spurner
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a word derived from
spurn.
Example Sentences
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And all eyes are on Craig Mackail-Smith - spurner of two fine opportunities.
From BBC ● May 29, 2011
“The non-hero returns. The ungrateful, the selfish, the spurner of gifts. Come to complain some more?”
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
Unfortunately the bishop was also of a proud and unyielding character, and he nursed resentment in his heart against this spurner of his authority.
From Legends of the Rhine by Wilhelm Ruland
I am neither a condemner nor a spurner," Malchus said indignantly; "I say only that I believe you worship them wrongfully, that you do them injustice.
From The Young Carthaginian A Story of The Times of Hannibal by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Sweet on cornfields and the Baby; Yet of Romney's grace no spurner, Or the golden dreams of Turner.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 22, 1890 by Various
