shunned
Example Sentences
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An NBC reporter gave this rundown: “Part-time jobs, shunned by neighbors, counseling for him and his wife, and a family divided. He sent his daughter to Jordan to escape the attention.”
From Slate • Apr. 19, 2026
Speaking to, Sarah Gorrell on BBC Radio Sussex, Becky said: "Because of disfigurement, burns patients were often shunned or abandoned by communities."
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
This, he says, is the result of growing up in a family that wasn’t emotional and shunned feelings.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026
When Henry Paulson was Goldman’s leader, for example, Mr. Blankfein and his wife Laura were served Hawaiian Punch with dinner at his house, since the Paulsons, as Christian Scientists, shunned alcohol.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
Many shunned him; a few nodded, and handed him their weapons; he rubbed the unguent on the stock and muzzle, all the while whispering to the firearm coaxingly in some unknown tongue.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
