shuns 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

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 "shuns" in a sentence

1. Antonyms for Accosts include aids, avoids, dodges, evades, helps, ignores, refrains, scorns, shuns and slights

2. He shuns such damaging practices as promiscuous sex, drug abuse, and drunkenness —and thus avoids premature death.

3. Opinion: Trump Embraces Caudillo Politics as Latin America Shuns It Latin America has been shedding its authoritarian past

4. A Brawler shuns the use of conventional weapons and armor, but in return he gains legendary martial abilities

5. The man who shuns realities because they Belittle him is on the wrong road; he is hopelessly lost from the beginning

6. He is also described as the quiet one who shuns publicity and lets the rest of the band enjoy the limelight.

7. Synonyms for Avoids include circumvents, shuns, bypasses, circumnavigates, keeps clear of, stays away from, steers clear of, dodges, evades and gives a wide berth to

8. DC Circuit Shuns 'Garamond,' Setting Lawyers Abuzz Over Favorite Fonts The appeals court issued a notice titled "Preferred Typefaces for Briefs" that essentially declared—but did not mandate

9. This is a moderately large , pale brown agile insect that shuns light and hides the whole day behind warm fire - places in cracks and crevices of the kitchen and pantry .

10. ‘The outdoor season promises more such Confrontations.’ ‘He never shuns a confrontation and is an inspiration to the rest of the players’ ‘Kerry and Cork Confrontations normally generate a good degree of passion but this contest failed dismally on that score.’

11. IT is necessary, in this place, to speak of the Antipathies of natural things, seeing it is requisite, as we go on, to have a thorough knowledge of that obstinate contrariety of Nature, where any thing shuns its contrary, and drives it, as it were, out of its presence.Such antipathy as this has the root rhubarb against choler; treacle against poison; the sapphire