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Antonyms for spurn
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English Synonyms and Antonyms2.0 / 2 votes

  1. spurn

    Antonyms:
    adore, honor, respect, revere, reverence, venerate

    Synonyms:
    contemn, despise, detest, disdain, dishonor, disregard, scoff at, scorn, slight

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. reject, spurn, freeze off, scorn, pooh-pooh, disdain, turn downverb

    reject with contempt

    "She spurned his advances"

    Synonyms:
    freeze off, eliminate, rule out, lower, resist, despise, winnow out, contemn, decline, lour, pass up, pooh-pooh, reject, disapprove, disdain, scorn, turn away, refuse, turn down

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  1. spurnnoun

    Synonyms:
    rejection, disdain, scorning

  2. spurnverb

    Synonyms:
    reject, scorn, contemn, despise, scout

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. accept

    spurn means deny for anything that's why i thought that this list should have this word (accept)

    1.your friend raj spurn that proposal while my friend accepted that.

    Submitted by anonymous on May 20, 2020  

How to use spurn in a sentence?

  1. Ben Azai, Mishna:

    Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place.

  2. Ben Azai:

    Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place.

  3. Mahabharata:

    Let none with scorn a suppliant meet, Or from the door untended spurn A dog; an outcast kindly treat; And so thou shalt be blest in turn.

  4. William Blum:

    I knew it would help the book's sales and I was not bothered by who it was coming from, if he shares with me a deep dislike for certain aspects of U.S. foreign policy, then I'm not going to spurn any endorsement of the book by him.

  5. Timothy Fox:

    If President Biden is willing to spurn some environmentalists within his base to keep nuclear power alive, it may reinforce his seriousness about achieving the target, and that means natural gas should not expect support as a ‘bridge fuel,’.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#1701respect
#4193honor
#23934adore
#24843revere
#28041reverence
#113548spurn
#143836venerate

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