shunned

Example Sentences

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Individuals all over the country were fired from their jobs, shunned, ostracized and run out of town for insufficient reverence for Kirk on social media.

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2026

Kim has so far largely shunned efforts to resume top-level diplomatic dialogue.

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

To see them alongside Viollet-le-Duc’s restoration drawings is to realize that he dodged a bullet when he shunned the École.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

For the most part, however, until Jesse was famous, he shunned his son, who was later adopted by the man his mother married, Charles Jackson.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

They will shun him the way she has been shunned.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool