spurn in English

verb

1

reject with disdain or contempt.

he spoke gruffly, as if afraid that his invitation would be spurned

synonyms: reject, rebuff, scorn, turn down, treat with contempt, disdain, look down one's nose at, despise, snub, slight, jilt, dismiss, brush off, turn one's back on, give someone the cold shoulder, cold-shoulder, turn one's nose up at, give someone the brush-off, kick in the teeth, give someone the bum's rush

noun

1

an act of spurning.

verb

• reject, rebuff, scorn, turn down, treat with contempt, disdain, look down one's nose at, despise, snub, slight, jilt, dismiss, brush off, turn one's back on, give someone the cold shoulder, cold-shoulder, turn one's nose up at, give someone the brush-off, kick in the teeth, give someone the bum's rush
• disdain, pooh-pooh, turn down, freeze off, reject, scorn

Use "spurn" in a sentence

1. I spurn your offer.

2. What other birds breed on Spurn?

3. Spurn Head has a reputation for rarities.

4. They spurn all our offers of help.

5. I awfully spurn this kind of teacher.

6. But Dudaev would be foolish to spurn the offer outright.

7. Scientists who spurn federal cash may do as they please.

8. We can't spurn chances like we did in Copenhagen and against Celtic.

9. Carl had been from his childhood a ball of fortune to spurn at.

10. They are treasured by localswho spurn frozen meat, finding it tasteless.

11. As an armyman, I spurn fearlessly at all danger and the enemy.

12. We should spurn at the difficulties but not look down upon them.

13. Even if we have sinned grievously but are repentant, Jehovah will not spurn our broken heart.

14. The internal aim lies not to be enthral of things and to spurn the force.

15. One of these colleges shall open its doors to me - shall welcome whom now it would spurn.

16. French discerpt work and recreation very clearly, they will spurn at you if your moblie are ringing.

17. Spurn is a long thin peninsula, jutting three-and-a-half miles out from the North Humberside mainland.

18. Israeli far-rightists spurn Islamist party, Clouding Netanyahu coalition prospects By Dan Williams 59 mins ago

19. One is that the syndicates will spurn smaller deals because of the cost of the paperwork.

20. The complicated misanthropy which enabled him, his interpreters declared, to love the public and spurn humanity, did not preclude certain trifling investigation of the tenderer emotions.

21. "The persons most Abhorrent from blood and treason." "The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn Abhorrent ." Abhorrent Contrary or repugnant; discordant; inconsistent; -- followed by to

22. And again, in the traditional Te Deum that we will raise at the end of our celebration before the Most Holy Sacrament solemnly exposed for our adoration singing, "Tu, ad liberandum suscepturus hominem, non horruisti Virginis uterum", in English: "when you, O Christ, became man to set us free you did not spurn the Virgin's womb".

23. Contemn (v.) mid-15c., contempnen, "to slight or spurn," from Old French Contemner (15c.) or directly from Latin Contemnere "to despise, scorn, consider (something or someone) as of small value," from assimilated form of com-, here probably an intensive prefix (see com-), + *temnere "to slight, scorn," which is of uncertain origin (see contempt).Of laws, agreements, etc., "consider and treat