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Spurn meaning
To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn. | To reject something by pushing it away with the foot. | To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)
Example sentences (17)
Having not won back-to-back league games this season, they needed three points to ensure they didn't spurn the optimism generated from the 4-0 thrashing of Queens Park Rangers.
He is not just aware of their oppressive influence, but ready to spurn companionship with them in this election and vote his conscience.
Penalties from Bruno Fernandes and Marcus Rashford were ultimately the difference between the two sides, but Everton managed to spurn chance after chance against the Red Devils who struggled to live with the intensity of Sean Dyche's side at times.
Phil thinks Ravenser Odd was located around what we now call Spurn Point, and specifically an area called the Old Den sandbank.
Those who spurn India's legacy should be exposed, he said, alleging that the Opposition says that Lord Ram never existed.
Society has become far less tolerant of those who spurn such events than when he last occupied the mayor’s office.
While experts say that a sizable number of Arab citizens may spurn the Emirates altogether on ideological grounds, others said that a wait-and-see approach was in order.
The Miami native was hired Dec. 30, hours after Mark Richt retired — a move that opened the door for his defensive coordinator, who had already taken over as Temple’s head coach, to spurn the Owls and return to the Hurricanes.
For a president to spurn one person or a group of people solely on the fact that they have different views on the situation than he does is not ok.
Frustration for Brazil as they spurn another good chance, but it’s much better from Neymar and co.
To the east is one of the longest and straightest beaches in the UK, reaching all the way north to Bridlington and curling around the Humber to form famous Spurn Point (home to a popular nature reserve) in the south.
While it is the fourth time in the last seven tournaments that no team outside of Europe or South America is in the last eight, even this quadrennial conflict will spurn its usual template.
Lincolnshire is the only maritime county of the six, with a true North Sea coastline of about convert due to the protection afforded by Spurn Head and the North Norfolk foreshore.
Some historians speculate that it was his conservative powerbase's disapproval of his foreign, non-Orthodox bride, more so than her appearance, that caused Alexei to spurn Charlotte.
The peers beg her not to scorn them simply because of their " blue blood " ("Spurn not the nobly born" and "My lords, it may not be").
These we spurn for men of brass..
We spurn the idea that the free, sovereign and independent State of Massachusetts is reduced to a mere municipal corporation, without power to protect its people, and to defend them from oppression, from whatever quarter it comes.