shunning

[ US /ˈʃənɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ʃˈʌnɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening
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How To Use shunning In A Sentence

  • Tachihi is one example of how investors in Japan have thrown out the baby with the bath water - shunning even highly-liquid, ungeared, and soundly-capitalised companies with good potential.
  • The ministry circulated a press release - shunning the hesitation and obscurity that usually takes it a lot longer to respond - saying the man was hurt in an explosion generated by combustible trash he kept in his house.
  • He now lives a quiet, reclusive life in rural Cheshire, with wife Christine, shunning the media spotlight.
  • Shunning the media and ducking a direct interaction will only cause more damage to the system, if it has not already, with the athletes flopping badly.
  • ADD andsee also anxiety; depressionpublic places, social skills in benefits ofbig picture vs. details andchallenges tophysiological needs andsocial contracts andthree Ps oftransitions andpublic space punctuality punishment banishment ashyperactivity andimpulsivity andineffectiveness ofshunning as“putting out the candle,” It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend
  • He shrugged unresponsively and lifted his arm free of hers, shunning the contact. The Glory Game
  • He now lives a quiet, reclusive life in rural Cheshire, with wife Christine, shunning the media spotlight.
  • He begs for food and wears only a loincloth and a cloak, shunning the townspeople and becoming a wretched figure with unkempt hair and long fingernails.
  • I guess shunning is much more civilized. datingjesus Who gets to say who’s a Catholic? « Dating Jesus
  • By blogging, I can leap beyond this place and get affirmation for saying things that would only otherwise have gotten me glares and shunning.
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