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    snub


    snubbed


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    snubs


    1. )" And, to further „sully the office," Obama"s Press Secretary, in a feeble attempt to justify the snub, said that was “…not a conversation worth having


    2. Now was the time for Milana to pay for the snub he had given Cruzel all those years ago


    3. But when Elizabeth Kirk heard it she put away a secret hope she had allowed herself to cherish, without a change of expression on her kind plain face, and Emmeline Drew resolved that the next time she saw a certain old bachelor of Lowbridge she would not snub him as she had done at a previous meeting


    4. good thing you’ve always been such a bad shot with that snub


    5. around the post and let it pay out until the front line comes up out of the water! Then snub it


    6. Whatever the true reason, this deliberate neglect or snub did not bother Mahātmā Gāndhi and did not let it interfere with his work like a true ‘Karma Yogi’


    7. A few times I had been the subject of a snub so tenaciously; even the shenanigans of Gertrude had not resulted in an anger so overwhelming, so dark, so brutal, as the one produced by Leonardo


    8. After the snub of the Magician, the pompous and over-sweet words of Dorian refreshed a little my injured pride


    9. A stab of empathy shot through her; a feeling she had not felt for years, since the days her weight had given others the perfect opportunity to snub and reject her at every turn


    10. What a way to snub the SOB? Oh, how sheepish V looked as I slurped sucking K's

    11. Oh, what a way it was to snub him without a word


    12. In a move he had seen his grandfather do many times in target practice, he released his grandfather snub nosed 38


    13. Stallman's name off the invite list as a snub


    14. thought she leant over to snub the candle, which Shinaé had


    15. Nancy ignored the thinly veiled snub in the woman’s voice and shook her head


    16. We have basically wiped out by ourselves both the German and the Japanese military machines, potentially saving you from losing tens of thousands of your soldiers and sailors, and the only thing you do in response is to snub me? Well, I do have power and I will use it, but only to make this world a better one and to prevent deaths and suffering


    17. But now, having undergone her brother’s hostility, the humiliation of her father’s snub and her mother’s hostile rejection, her courage began to evaporate and she wondered if anyone could ever undo this tangled knot


    18. When she had finished, she put the headdress on his head and gave him a slate backed mirror, he took it grudgingly, but I could see he was pleased with his reflection, he paraded around the room like a turkey cock in front of the hens, mother then said it was time for her and I to get dressed if we were to accompany Coatl on his first triumphal address to the people, it was close to midday when we stepped outside and headed for the square, people began to follow us and when we arrived at the square it was already full of warriors training, they all stopped and bowed, parting as mother led the way to the ball court, not stopping at the temple was a deliberate snub to the treacherous priest, he must be beside himself with rage, we would soon find out if he was a fool as well as a traitor


    19. 38 snub out of my pocket and aimed it at her


    20. one swift motion she pulled out a snub nose 38 and whipped

    21. Last but not least, he placed the snub nose 38 into Wiggles'


    22. Despite being surrounded by hundreds of nobles and important bourgeois present to celebrate his thirteenth birthday and official majority, young Louis was secretly fuming under his grave and dignified attitude: alone in all of the high nobility with the exception of his sister, the Duchess of Longueville, the Prince of Condé had chosen to deliberately snub him by not attending this ceremony


    23. After all, the vanity of man makes him believe that if a woman shuns him, she would snub others as well, but, should man suspect that a woman is carrying on with someone, he would imagine that she could be an easy lay for him as well


    24. Predictably, Indira stretched her father’s Muslim leanings to ludicrous lengths in claiming the membership for India in the Organization of Islamic Countries on the premise that it was the home for the largest body of the Musalmans in the world! Naturally, the Rabbat snub, engineered by Pakistan, rubbed salt into the wounded Hindu pride, which the Congress party didn’t mind to amend


    25. ‘We were issued with a standard regulation snub nose pistol


    26. Cecily wasn’t surprised at the snub


    27. He didn’t want to snub his Bess, not even in a life or death situation


    28. Her smile wilted like a lily in the hot sun as my snub hit home


    29. to snub his little piracy business


    30. Besides, she’d put up with the week long snub between Topps and I

    31. The type of person you want to snub for no reason


    32. The older of the two remaining men, the councilman from the court yesterday, nodded his head respectfully at Thaddeus as a slight smile touched his lips, while his companion’s face was wreathed in a huge grin at Thaddeus’s snub of Oswald


    33. "They're all generals' daughters, it seems, but they have all snub noses," interposed a tipsy peasant with a sly smile on his face, wearing a loose coat


    34. There was besides in the inn, as servant, an Asturian lass with a broad face, flat poll, and snub nose, blind of one eye and not very sound in the other


    35. cattle-stealer, and on his confession they sentenced him to six years in the galleys, besides two bundred lashes that he has already had on the back; and he is always dejected and downcast because the other thieves that were left behind and that march here ill-treat, and snub, and jeer, and despise him for confessing and not having spirit enough to say nay; for, say they, 'nay' has no more letters in it than 'yea,' and a culprit is well off when life or death with him depends on his own tongue and not on that of witnesses or evidence; and to my thinking they are not very far out


    36. "Don't say 'larks!' " implored Amy, as a return snub for the 'samphire' correction


    37. Is not this a way which you have with the fair: one has a snub nose, and you praise his charming face; the hook-nose of another has, you say, a royal look; while he who is neither snub nor hooked has the grace of regularity: the dark visage is manly, the fair are children of the gods; and as to the sweet 'honey pale,' as they are called, what is the very name but the invention of a lover who talks in diminutives, and is not averse to paleness if appearing on the cheek of youth? In a word, there is no excuse which you will not make, and nothing which you will not say, in order not to lose a single flower that blooms in the spring-time of youth


    38. But do not take it as a snub or think “I guess I’m


    39. One enduring snub occurred when he worked for McNamara in the 1960s, and he wrote about it in his book draft


    40. Another apparent snub that stuck with Butterfield also dated back to the Johnson White House

    41. Kick felt the snub deeply


    42. Tess made no reply to this remark, of which, indeed, she did not quite comprehend the drift, unheeding the snub she had administered by her instinctive rub upon her cheek


    43. Her red hair was bound up in a braid so long it brushed past her thighs, and she had a dimpled chin, a snub nose, and a light spray of freckles across her cheeks


    44. She was distracting him, with her snub nose and her freckles


    45. “But you may have noticed that I didn’t snub you when I saw you again, and I accepted your invitations


    46. His neighbor on the other side, who lay motionless some distance from him with his head thrown back, was a young soldier with a snub nose


    47. She had wide cheekbones, a snub nose, great green eyes whose dancing mischief gave the lie to the innocence she was faking


    48. Montse wrinkled her snub nose


    49. “For him to snub his nose at the strike first confused her and then made her lose respect for him


    50. ‘They’re all generals’ daughters, it seems, but they have all snub noses,’ interposed a tipsy peasant with a sly smile on his face, wearing a loose coat






    1. Children resent harsh criticism or being snubbed and the grandparents can apply soothing balm


    2. It would go some way towards assuaging the guilt she was feeling about how she’d snubbed Piers when Troy had introduced him earlier in the day


    3. She did not volunteer any further information and Walter felt rather snubbed


    4. Their voices appear to be in tune only on Sundays!' She was quite meek and I felt that I had snubbed her properly


    5. The field inspector who was snubbed by my predecessor became the media director of the company, and he had a long memory


    6. There were also many petty things that would happen such as being snubbed at work as Matthew was by his boss


    7. futile; the two girls snubbed her and walked away arm in arm


    8. Then you snubbed the one French general who 788


    9. " Chance started to jump around uncontrollably, his parents stood in shock, Phillip grabbed his shoulder, and Cindy felt snubbed by his neglecting to talk to her first


    10. The way the American forces had snubbed the Japanese as supposedly inferior soldiers before the attack on Pearl Harbor had been a perfect case in point

    11. Hilo snubbed his cigarette butt out on the bunk bed frame and threw it in the toilette


    12. Does that mean that I could be snubbed as well and relegated to the tail of the procession? The Overseer and I came here to pay our respects to a worthy monarch, not to be used like political pawns by your Church


    13. He was snubbed by the whole crowd of people all going in


    14. Feeling threatened—and snubbed, to boot—Sig latched his teeth 99


    15. Ingram waited in the parlour, where he stood taking in with attentive eyes the details of that neglected, almost snubbed little room, while Ingeborg went to the laboratory, so happy and proud that she forgot she was breaking rules, to fetch, as she said, Robert


    16. At any other time she would have snubbed Robin and got rid of him


    17. Fern noted that the other girls had little interaction with her and even the boy, who would often go to her side only to be snubbed, gave up in the end


    18. He was snubbed by the whole crowd of people all going in different directions without even noticing the people around them


    19. They were snubbed


    20. Why did he do this? It’s obvious! After Germany being attacked and snubbed and treated like a nigger nation for 30 years by the entire world, after being robbed and cheated and blockaded and starved and intimidated… Germans developed the attitude of them against the whole world because the entire world was their enemy

    21. How many lower class males feel shame because their own social females are such hypocritical social climbers: that they are snubbed and scorned and ignored? Until this cultural poison has spread into a blind public snobbery of all girls towards all males


    22. When the British aristocracy snubbed him and threw him out of England on his ear: he suddenly conveniently became a patriotic colonist again


    23. She did not like to go to service, to be snubbed about, after being her own mistress


    24. Thomas felt snubbed by the church


    25. We’d been snubbed by at least six of them over the past couple of hours


    26. "And it would be so easy of attainment," he continued, "this aim which, whether knowingly or not, I have always had in my heart—ever since the day when you snubbed me so horribly once in Paris, you remember


    27. This was Southern chivalry and gallantry for you! Maybe those women who carried their heads so high and snubbed all attempts at friendliness wouldn’t be so uppity, now that everyone knew where their husbands spent their time when they were supposed to be at political meetings


    28. She wore her hair now in an enormous pompador and had discarded the blue ribbon bows of auld lang syne, but her face was as freckled, her nose as snubbed, and her mouth and smiles as wide as ever


    29. But Anne snubbed them without fear and without reproach


    30. Whenever I have met you in the streets I have always said to myself, ‘What if he doesn't know me and rejects me—nine years is no joke!’ and I did not dare try you for fear of being snubbed

    31. He was unmercifully snubbed sometimes, and he richly deserved it; but the curious thing about him was that the snubs were wasted


    32. That he was being remorselessly snubbed for his pains was giving him a novel sensation of self-pity that did not seem to affect his genial humor very acutely


    33. Lord Farquhart, lounging in the park, hoping to meet the Lady Barbara, even if it was only to be snubbed by the Lady Barbara, saw that young lady at the end of a long line of trees with Mr


    34. Jarvis—And the third time—you snubbed me


    1. Kinnard moped around as if he hadn't a friend in the world, and Swann recalled not simply snubbing him this morning but giving him a hard time before making the jump


    2. snubbing them, well, I told them all about my mother in greater


    3. “ How dare you wear a different costume than the one I had made specifically for you? Marcus told me he didn’t appreciate your fawning all over him, flirting unashamedly when there were other young women who wished to dance with him and then snubbing all the young suitors who wanted to share a bit of private time with you! You’re relegated to your rooms until I say otherwise! ” She slammed the door on her way out


    4. – Asshole! At this time, Juvenal, to flatter the mayor, spent the lunch offering me a lot of things I didn’t know, snubbing his "great" knowledge


    5. Some believe Reagan was snubbing Bush, but the truth is the Bush campaign wanted the candidate to be his own man


    6. even for snubbing the officials of the Bureau


    7. I’d never have told stories about the bedridden Lady Elinor or about the magister girls snubbing the general’s sons


    8. I was therefore deeply interested in what was going on in those countrified parlors of one of the richest and most powerful men in the world—and this right in the heart of that district of New York where palaces stand in rows and in blocks, and where such few churches as there are resemble social clubs for snubbing climbers and patronizing the poor


    9. Warren had listened with a sweet and ready sympathy that had caused James quite to forget a certain stinging snubbing he had received from the selfsame lady, because once, back in the dark ages—before Nancy had opened her blue eyes on this naughty world—when he was a gawky, freckle-faced boy of sixteen, he had dared to walk home from church with Mildred, the eldest daughter of the house of Warren


    1. I cannot believe—I wish I could--that a child will dislike a parent without cause; the cause may be small things, a series of trifles each of little moment, snubs too often repeated, chills too often applied, stern looks, short words, sarcasms,--and these, as you and I both know, are quite ordinary dullness’s, often daily ingredients of family life; but they sit with a strange and upsetting grace on the poet of Paradise, and I would give anything never to have heard of them


    2. "Don't like him, he puts on airs, snubs his sisters, worries his father, a nd doesn't speak respectfully of his mother


    3. Butterfield took snubs very personally, and by his own account they tended to almost live within him for years, even decades afterward


    4. The hating was at Nixon’s center, the driving force to get the “sons of bitches,” to settle all the scores for all the slights and snubs and opposition


    5. Now I shall tell her I have had it straight from a real artist, and snubs to her


    6. He is so zealous that he gets many snubs and buffetings from people of a different way of thinking from himself, and I don't like to hear of such humiliations to a man of his age, the more particularly as I don't think earnestness does any good when carried so far


    7. “But what is the matter with you? And what is this message, may I ask, or is it a secret?” Rakitin put in inquisitively, doing his best to pretend not to notice the snubs that were being continually aimed at him


    8. He was unmercifully snubbed sometimes, and he richly deserved it; but the curious thing about him was that the snubs were wasted


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    Synonyms for "snub"

    cold shoulder cut snub rebuff repulse repel disregard ignore affront slight slur rebuke disdain abash shun humiliate mortify reprove scold censure reprimand check

    "snub" definitions

    an instance of driving away or warding off


    a refusal to recognize someone you know


    refuse to acknowledge


    reject outright and bluntly


    unusually short