cold shoulders
Deliberate social freezeouts
Cold shoulders is the plural of cold shoulder, the dismissive treatment of ignoring or snubbing someone.
To give someone the cold shoulder is to be deliberately unfriendly or unresponsive: She's been giving me the cold shoulder since the argument.
The phrase appears most often in singular form with "the."
- ignoreRefuse to notice
- snubDeliberate dismissive rejection
- brush offDismissive rejection of someone
- icyFrozen or unfriendly
- icy stareHostile, cold expression
stiff · ostracize · turn · turn away · silent treatment · cut · stonewalling · freeze out · shun · shut out · avoidance · disregard · wall · slights · blank · dismissals · rebuff · reject
- criticismscriticizes, disparages, condemns, denounces, censures
cold shouldersopen arms
Welcoming body language
red carpet treatment · hospitality · warm embrace · royal treatment · bear hugs
cold shoulderswarmth
Heat you feel
affection · friendliness · attentiveness · kindness · solicitude
cold shouldersopen arms
Welcoming body language
warm reception · warm embrace · red carpet treatment · hospitality · warmth
cold, shoulder, colder, coldest, coldly, coldness, shoulders, shouldered, shouldering