| 词汇 | shunned |
| 释义 | shunned past simple and past participle ofshun Examples of shunnedshunned The outsider as leader is neither to be welcomed as a saviour nor shunned as a pariah. This reasoning rests on the assumption that both tenants and landlords shunned investing in innovations, albeit for different reasons. The editors have shunned a rigid chronological approach in favour of a loosely connected discussion of various themes. Indeed, pitched battle was shunned, for its natural corollary of heavy casualties demoralized the followers of any leader who employed such tactics. They were often institutionalized, shunned by society and stigmatized. At least among humans, these innovators might be shunned or expelled from the group. They embraced modernity, in the shape of mechanization, with fervent zeal, but they were shunned by many of their more conservative colleagues. Her reference to being "lucky" is made in comparison to her college roommates who come from families where such female gatherings are shunned. While on horseback, the fair equestrian shunned the lace, frills, and furbelows worn by her pedestrian sisters. Musical genres of minorities, however, are shunned from the national consciousness. Consequently, parastates shunned electoral politics because of its domination by corrupt demagogues and condemned legislatures for their parochialism. The voluntarism of the one saw possibilities in the ordinary mechanisms of state management, which the other shunned as proceeding from corrupt reason. Even today, political participation is often stigmatised and shunned by ordinary people. Most rural migrants shunned the cities if they could. This clarity was, in several cases, being sharpened with the need to defend particular positions, vehemently shunned by others. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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