Synonyms for spurn
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1. spurn

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

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

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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. spurnverb

   Synonyms:
   kick

2. spurnverb

   Synonyms:
   CONTEMN, scorn, scout, despise, disdain, make light of, look down upon, hold in contempt

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1. spurnnoun

   Synonyms:
   rejection, disdain, scorning

2. spurnverb

   Synonyms:
   reject, scorn, contemn, despise, scout

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1. 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,’.

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. Jonathan Schanzer:

   The question now is whether Kim Jong Un is ready to deliver, or if this is a prelude to yet another deliberate effort to spurn the West.

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. Francois Fenelon:

   If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.