as in avoided
to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery
just a ruse to shun the debt collectors
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Recent Examples of shunned
Having lost its mother during a traumatic birth, the cow Lucy had to be bottle-fed and was shunned by the herd.
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R. Daniel Foster, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
Once shunned at the G20 summit in 2014 after his annexation of the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea from Ukraine and his stoking of separatism in Ukraine’s Donbas region, Putin was the man to speak to a year later.
—Nathan Hodge, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
Targeted by an obsessive attacker, Shams escapes to the capital city and lives in the shadows, shunned by true love and rejected by society’s rigid norms and expectations.
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 7 Dec. 2024
Nathan Laine / Bloomberg via Getty Images Macron shunned the leftists, who won the most seats without securing a majority, and instead tapped Barnier, who was able to cobble together enough conservatives and centrists to govern without an absolute majority.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 4 Dec. 2024
Once shunned by his fellow Arab autocrats, Bashar al-Assad was gradually regaining the dubious respectability Arab regimes afford one another.
—Ben Wedeman, CNN, 30 Nov. 2024
Brutal honesty does not have to be shunned completely – for some employees, brutal honesty may be the best way to give them feedback – but in the workplace overall, brutal honesty has shown to have a negative effect.
—Eva Epker, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
Having been shunned last season, Bancroft endured a horrific form slump for Western Australia to start this domestic season and negated his hopes of a Test return.
—Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
My mum grew up near here, but this part of Mombasa remains a mystery—to me, most tourists, and many residents—shunned in favor of the mainland's leafier Nyali neighborhood or the unending beaches of Bamburi further down the road.
—Selina Denman, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Nov. 2024
R. Daniel Foster, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
Once shunned at the G20 summit in 2014 after his annexation of the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea from Ukraine and his stoking of separatism in Ukraine’s Donbas region, Putin was the man to speak to a year later.
—Nathan Hodge, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
Targeted by an obsessive attacker, Shams escapes to the capital city and lives in the shadows, shunned by true love and rejected by society’s rigid norms and expectations.
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 7 Dec. 2024
Nathan Laine / Bloomberg via Getty Images Macron shunned the leftists, who won the most seats without securing a majority, and instead tapped Barnier, who was able to cobble together enough conservatives and centrists to govern without an absolute majority.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 4 Dec. 2024
Once shunned by his fellow Arab autocrats, Bashar al-Assad was gradually regaining the dubious respectability Arab regimes afford one another.
—Ben Wedeman, CNN, 30 Nov. 2024
Brutal honesty does not have to be shunned completely – for some employees, brutal honesty may be the best way to give them feedback – but in the workplace overall, brutal honesty has shown to have a negative effect.
—Eva Epker, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
Having been shunned last season, Bancroft endured a horrific form slump for Western Australia to start this domestic season and negated his hopes of a Test return.
—Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
My mum grew up near here, but this part of Mombasa remains a mystery—to me, most tourists, and many residents—shunned in favor of the mainland's leafier Nyali neighborhood or the unending beaches of Bamburi further down the road.
—Selina Denman, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shunned
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Yoon Impeachment Attempt Yoon narrowly avoided impeachment on Saturday after most lawmakers from the ruling party boycotted the floor vote in the National Assembly.Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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Initially, that Bogie and Bacall parentage was something their son avoided.Marco della Cava, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
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Even against Carolina, just before halftime, Hurts evaded heavy pressure on a 15-yard scramble into the Panthers red zone.Brooks Kubena, The Athletic, 9 Dec. 2024
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Minimizing the number of actions a fugitive takes before and after a crime is crucial to avoid getting caught, said Peter Young, a former FBI fugitive who evaded capture for more than seven years on terrorism charges related to releases of animals from fur farms.Gloria Pazmino, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
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After Thompson was gunned down, police said, Mangione ran off, rode into Central Park on a bike, ditched it on the Upper West Side, then took a taxi to the Port Authority bus terminal near the George Washington Bridge and escaped from the city.Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 11 Dec. 2024
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Police said the suspect escaped the scene on an electric Citi Bike and headed towards Central Park.Nicole Acosta, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Shunned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shunned. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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