shunning in English

verb

1

persistently avoid, ignore, or reject (someone or something) through antipathy or caution.

he shunned fashionable society

synonyms: avoid, evade, eschew, steer clear of, shy away from, fight shy of, keep one's distance from, give a wide berth to, have nothing to do with, snub, give someone the cold shoulder, cold-shoulder, ignore, look right through, reject, rebuff, spurn, ostracize, give someone the brush-off, freeze out, give someone the bum's rush, give someone the brush off

noun

• dodging, turning away, avoidance

verb

• avoid, evade, eschew, steer clear of, shy away from, fight shy of, keep one's distance from, give a wide berth to, have nothing to do with, snub, give someone the cold shoulder, cold-shoulder, ignore, look right through, reject, rebuff, spurn, ostracize, give someone the brush-off, freeze out, give someone the bum's rush, give someone the brush off
• ban, ostracise, ostracize, cast out, banish, blackball
• eschew

Use "shunning" in a sentence

1. Asocial behavior is the deliberate shunning of social interaction by an individual

2. Taking care of your body and shunning bad habits. —2 Corinthians 7:1.

3. The adversity and opposition of shunning has caused them to be steadfast and immovable.

4. Agnosis meaning Epistemologically necessary lack of, indifference to, denial or shunning of, or defective knowledge.

5. Synonyms for Abstaining include avoiding, desisting, eschewing, forbearing, refraining, renouncing, shunning, declining, forgoing and keeping

6. Amish shunning is the use of social exclusion as method used to enforce Amish church rules

7. Synonyms for Boycotting include banning, blacklisting, embargoing, barring, avoiding, blacking, blackballing, cutting off, rejecting and shunning

8. It is no longer “a fluttering heart”, allured by momentary whims, shunning disagreements and seeking petty satisfactions.

9. Therefore, one way that we can take a stand against Satan is by shunning pride and cultivating humility.

10. Some of them are admirably progressive, shunning the traditional abhorrence of secular subjects and incorporating them into their curriculum.

11. Agnosis (countable and uncountable, plural agnoses) Epistemologically necessary lack of, indifference to, denial or shunning of, or defective knowledge

12. New data has revealed over the past year, the number of anti-Asian hate incidents — which can include shunning, slurs and physical Attacks — is greater than previously reported.

13. Avoidance - deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening shunning , turning away , dodging rejection - the act of rejecting something; "his proposals were met with rejection"

14. Consumers have cut back sharply on food spending, shunning restaurants, opting for generic products over brand names, trading in lattes for home-brewed coffee and shopping for bargains.

15. The Maya retaliated at first by withholding church taxes, taking their children out of church schools, shunning catechism classes, and refusing to work on the haciendas, or plantations.

16. Rarely do songs about Breakups or exes seem like a rollicking good time, but Swift seems totally upbeat while continuously shunning a former boyfriend who is trying to get back together with her

17. Contrary to popular belief, Amish shunning does not end of all social interaction, but it does involve rituals that remind the wayward of their sin and seek to bring them back into fellowship.

18. The insulated nature of Amish communities has always piqued our interest due to their shunning of modern conveniences, their closed communities and their way of living and thinking that seems so far removed from the modern-day stresses so ingrained in our daily …

19. ‘By reserve we do not mean Bashfulness or timidity.’ ‘Modesty suggests shunning indecent behavior but it also implies Bashfulness based on timidity.’ ‘She has a quiet, humble presence not to be confused with Bashfulness, and a Bob Marley shirt claiming, ‘One Love.’’

20. As nouns the difference between agnostic and Agnosis is that agnostic is a person who holds to a form of agnosticism, especially uncertainty of the existence of a deity while Agnosis is epistemologically necessary lack of, indifference to, denial or shunning of, or defective knowledge

21. There were many ways of not Burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything