Synonyms for shrug
ʃrʌgshrug

Princeton's WordNet

1. shrugverb

   a gesture involving the shoulders

2. shrugverb

   raise one's shoulders to indicate indifference or resignation

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1. • Gesture

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1. List of paraphrases for "shrug":

   shrink

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1. Boris Johnson:

   For the last few years I have said clearly if we didn't get reform we should be prepared to walk away. I think we now have a golden opportunity to shrug off a regulatory legislative burden that is profoundly undemocratic, we have got a once in a lifetime opportunity, which will not come again, to strike a new series of relationships, free trade deals with the growth economies around the world, whilst maintaining ... our free trade advantages with the European Union.

2. James Athey:

   Markets in general are still trying to find their feet, equities, of course, continue to shrug off or ignore anything that might be considered remotely negative as they continue their merry and complacent dance towards an inevitable reckoning.

3. Larry Sabato:

   This is a shrug of the shoulders.

4. Tom Porcelli:

   For even those folks that have been doubters about it, this has to pull them to the other side in terms of that conversation, one number in and of itself will not dictate if a hike happens or not, but a number like this is hard to shrug off.

5. Alexandra Kartokhina:

   As for these eternal squabbles that students from Crimea are taking university places from Russians, I can say only that it's completely absurd, and let me say that they have only allocated budgeted places for Crimean students to some universities and in some specialisms, which are often not the best. In some universities, questions about quotas are met with a shrug and a puzzled look.