shun
The film eschews sentimentality but is full of sincere emotion.
A former model and film star, she now eschews the limelight.
After winning fame as a general, he eschewed politics and retired to his farm.
We eschew luxuries in order to be able to repay our mortgage more quickly.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Avoiding action
abrogate
abrogation
avoid
avoid something like the plagueidiom
avoidance
elude
end-run
evader
evasion
fiddle
fiddle around
insure
shirk
short circuit
shrink from something
shy away from something
sit on your arseidiom
steer
welch
Welsh

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Stop having or doing something

eschew | American Dictionary

eschew
verb[ T ]
 fmlus/ɪsˈtʃu/
to avoid something intentionally, or to give up something:
The leaders of the organization eschewed the term "union," preferring "guild."

Examples of eschew

eschew
It also enables us to eschew subtle questions of syntactic definability.
Because of these promises, the men eschewed training programmes available to them as ex-combatants and amputees.
Ferling eschews the current habit of historians who write microscopically on their chosen subject and thereby provide immense detail at the expense of meaningful interpretation.
The findings underscore the importance of measuring self- and other-blame separately and eschewing forcedchoice or polarized formats to measure causal or responsibility judgments.
Those of us who eschew dualism naturally assume that something different happens in the brain when a different phenomenal experience occurs.
Hence, his reliance on those precepts when tackling hard cases is not something that he is legally at liberty to eschew.
While properly respectful, the aura of reverential incense all too easily associated with this figure is eschewed.
Advocates of market liberalization commonly worry that democracies will eschew economically rational policies because voters cannot tolerate short-term pain on the promise of long-term gain.
He handles with care the matter of secularization, eschewing any assertion that religion was losing potency.
Moreover, we need to show that those reasons are more powerful than any reasons they might have for eschewing justice and acting on other dispositions.
As most individuals would eschew appearing irrational, this itself might induce single-peakedness.
We admit that our suggestion to eschew deception, whenever possible, imposes constraints.
They eschew the use of the interdental realization of (ts) because there is little homology between the image of an alley saunterer and a yuppie.
The village ethos promoted consensus and eschewed political discourse.
Secondly, optimality accounts of phenomena in fully developed systems tend to eschew underspecification.
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