shunned; shunning
: to avoid deliberately and especially habitually
shuns publicity
shunner
noun
Examples of shun in a Sentence
He shuns parties and social events.
After his divorce he found himself being shunned by many of his former friends.
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In a society that shunned unwed mothers, some women were pressured to give up their infants soon after giving birth.
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Yoonjung Seo, CNN Money, 1 Aug. 2025
Threaded through all this heaviness, however, is a palpable joy, a kind of luminous gratitude for having found one another, despite their presence in a country that routinely shuns them.
—Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 29 July 2025
Another version assigns all the creative credit to Jack Kirby, a brilliant artist and storyteller who shunned the spotlight as much as Lee craved it.
—Oliver Staley, Time, 25 July 2025
However, her experience of being shunned as a Black woman by other local gay clubs bolstered her resolve to make the Catch, which opened in 1973, more welcoming for those left out of the scene in L.A.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025
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Yoonjung Seo, CNN Money, 1 Aug. 2025
Threaded through all this heaviness, however, is a palpable joy, a kind of luminous gratitude for having found one another, despite their presence in a country that routinely shuns them.
—Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 29 July 2025
Another version assigns all the creative credit to Jack Kirby, a brilliant artist and storyteller who shunned the spotlight as much as Lee craved it.
—Oliver Staley, Time, 25 July 2025
However, her experience of being shunned as a Black woman by other local gay clubs bolstered her resolve to make the Catch, which opened in 1973, more welcoming for those left out of the scene in L.A.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025
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“Shun.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shun. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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shun
verb
shunned; shunning
: to avoid purposely or by habit
shunned her former friends
shunner
noun
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