spurn
verb (used with object)
to reject with disdain; scorn.
will spurn
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future tenseof spurn.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Rosenberg added that he hopes the study will spurn similar concern for all types of birds.
From Fox News ● Sep. 19, 2019
And there is little indication, so far, that these voters will spurn Mrs. Clinton for a Republican.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2016
What Southampton will have learned is that you have got to be able to concentrate for 90 plus minutes because, while Championship sides will spurn chances, the top teams don't and just put you away.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2012
Fearing that she will spurn him, the two noble families arrange as proxy another son, the beautiful Paolo.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2010
Bethink thee that they will spurn him from the door, as they would do a houseless and masterless dog, and that he may die on the sands or on the common.
From Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott
