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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of shun.

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Examples

  • Expectation that he would attend was fuelled by a visit to a town outside Havana on Saturday when he wore an olive-green military shirt and was referred to as "commander in chief", a title shunned during his convalescence.

    Cuba left guessing on Revolution Day as Fidel Castro misses big parade 2010

  • It's a label shunned by many Wichitans, regardless of their views on abortion.

    WIBW - HomePage - Headlines 2010

  • They are qualities, habits, and methods that Bush and Cheney shunned from the first day of their co-dependent Presidency.

    Lance Mannion: 2009

  • They are qualities, habits, and methods that Bush and Cheney shunned from the first day of their co-dependent Presidency.

    Now he tells us 2009

  • I am exiled; shunned from the warren and left to scratch my own burrow into the hard clay and shale.

    BECOMING COTTONTAIL • by Deven D Atkinson 2008

  • Mr. Hughes was shunned from the church after he rejected its teachings about blood transfusions and agreed to allow Bethany to undergo transfusions during her chemotherapy treatments.

    hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Blood and Religion 2007

  • And I love the word shunned in all its implications because conservatives have this amazing visceral distaste for John McCain which has never really been fully understandable.

    CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2008 2008

  • So by repeating his words to him about himself, I was unapologetically shunned from a discourse on ˜origins 'upon which I have been intently focussed for several years, academically and otherwise speaking.

    A Post-Wedge World 2005

  • Story writers don't have the cachet of novelists, and Pritchett's elegant, impressionistic literary essays, which eschew jargon and theorizing, were and remain shunned by academe.

    An Exquisite Slogger 2005

  • Story writers don't have the cachet of novelists, and Pritchett's elegant, impressionistic literary essays, which eschew jargon and theorizing, were and remain shunned by academe.

    An Exquisite Slogger 2005

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