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词汇 spurn
释义 spurn
verb[ T ]
 formaluk /spɜːn/ us /spɝːn/
to refuse to accept something or someone because you feel that thing or person is not worth having: 轻蔑地拒绝;摒弃
She spurned my offers of help.她断然拒绝了我的帮助。
Ellis plays the part of the young lover spurned by his mistress.埃利斯扮演被情妇抛弃的年轻恋人。
Synonyms
disdainformal
reject
scorn
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Refusing & rejecting
abjuration
abnegate
abnegation
bar
bat something/someone away
decline
disavow
gainsay
oppositional
opt
opt out
pass on
pass something up
punt on something
rebel
refuse
sb wouldn't touch something/someone with a bargepole/barge poleidiom
tear
wash your hands of somethingidiom
would not do something for all the tea in Chinaidiom

spurn | American Dictionary


spurn
verb[ T ]
us/spɜrn/
to refuse to accept something:
She spurned his attentions and refused to see him.

Examples of spurn


spurn
If those people are given two chances, but spurn both, my sympathy is at an end.
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You do not spurn a beautiful lady because she happens to have a mole on the sole of her foot.
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The theme of ' ' charity ' ' is revisited only to be spurned.
And not surprisingly, intimate local knowledge of the land and its resources is spurned.
It reflects an irresistible trend in the academy toward spurning unified schemes and hierarchies of every kind.
The emphasis is on opportunities lost or spurned.
That is, they spurned the idea that market forces determine the outcome of the struggle.
Functional languages typically spurn explicit mutation of data structures, which means that data structures in functional languages tend to be persistent.
It becomes a tribute spurned, leaving him in mastery.
All of the other contributions employ the ' disembodied sentences ' supposedly spurned by the cognitive-functional approach.
Many citizens spurn discussions because they strongly dislike the fundamental act of making their preferences known to others.
Similarly, the practical mathematical sciences, in which the practices and instruments of the new experimental strategies appeared, have too often been spurned.
The largest group which is generally spurning the move towards the loss of the final -al is the group ending in -logical, such as archaeological, biological, ecological, meteorological, psychological, theological.
It is unthinkable to spurn it in this way.
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They will be handy men, spurned in the workshop, because foremen and workmen will not have anything to do with them.
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