Antonyms for SHUN
ʃʌnshun

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1. shun

   Abhor is stronger than despise, implying a shuddering recoil, especially a moral recoil. "How many shun evil as inconvenient who do not abhor it as hateful." Trench Serm. in Westm. Abbey xxvi, 297. [Murray's "New English Dictionary"] Detest expresses indignation, with something of contempt. Loathe implies disgust, physical or moral. We abhor a traitor, despise a coward, detest a liar. We dislike an uncivil person. We abhor cruelty, hate tyranny. We loathe a reptile or a flatterer. We abhor Milton's heroic Satan, but we can not despise him.

   Antonyms:
   admire, approve, covet, crave, desire, enjoy, esteem, esteem, like, love, relish

   Synonyms:
   abhor, abominate, despise, detest, dislike, hate, loathe, nauseate, scorn

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1. shun

   Antonyms:
   court, seek, affect

   Synonyms:
   avoid, escape, discard, eschew, keep clear of, elude

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1. • Expel

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1. shun, eschewverb

   avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of

   Synonyms:
   blackball, ostracize, ostracise, banish, eschew, ban, cast out, shun

2. banish, ban, ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackballverb

   expel from a community or group

   Synonyms:
   ostracize, veto, toss, relegate, cast out, toss out, fling, eschew, blackball, banish, chuck out, dispose, ban, throw away, bar, censor, cast away, ostracise, cast aside, throw out, negative, put away, toss away, discard, shun

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1. shunverb

   Synonyms:
   avoid, elude, evade, eschew

How to use SHUN in a sentence?

1. William James:

   Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

2. C. P. Scott:

   The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.

3. John Dryden:

   Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.

4. Fumio Haga:

   People would shun Fukushima fish again as soon as the water is released.

5. Cato the Elder:

   Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

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