cutting someone dead
Pointed social invisibility
Cutting someone dead is deliberately ignoring them in public—refusing to acknowledge their presence, look at them, or return a greeting.
The act is pointed and unmistakable, meant to communicate contempt or social rejection: She cut him dead at the party, walking past as if he didn't exist.
The phrase carries a formal, old-fashioned flavor, evoking an era when such snubs had real social consequences.
- snubbingPointedly ignoring someone
- ostracizingExcluding from a group
- etiquette breachesFailures of proper conduct
- polite societyRespectable social elite
- silenceTotal lack of sound
icy stare · ghosting · rejecting · resentment · disdain · class distinctions · hostility · indifference · ignoring · aloofness · coldness · shunning · excluding · avoidance · dismissiveness · beneath contempt · sidelining · social hierarchies
cutting someone deadwelcoming
Receiving others warmly
embracing · hailing · saluting · rolling out the red carpet · acknowledging
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