spurn

spurn

1. torjua; hyljeksiä

2. ylenkatsoa, halveksia

Esimerkkejä:

He 'spurned' my offers of help.

Trump 'Spurned' by 30 Companies as He Seeks Bond in $454 Million Judgment (New York Times)

Synonyymisanakirja

spurn

hylätä, torjua, kieltäytyä, viis veisata, halveksia, ylenkatsoa, olla hyväksymättä, vastustaa, kiistää, käännyttää.

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Englannin sanakirja

spurn englanniksi

1. puhekieltä To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.

2. Shakespeare

to spurn at your most royal image

What safe and nicely I might well delay / By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn.

3. John Locke

Domestics will pay a more cheerful service when they find themselves not spurned because fortune has laid them at their master's feet.

4. puhekieltä To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.

I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.

5. puhekieltä To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)

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7. puhekieltä To kick or toss up the heels.

8. Chaucer

The miller spurned at a stone.

9. Gay

The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns.

10. An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.

11. A kick; a blow with the foot.

12. Milton

What defence can properly be used in such a despicable encounter as this but either the slap or the spurn?

13. puhekieltä Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.

The insolence of office and the spurns / That patient merit of the unworthy takes.

14. A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.

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