spurn
Turn away disdainfully
To spurn is to reject with disdain or contempt—a dismissal that conveys not just refusal but scorn.
You spurn an offer, an advance, or a person: She spurned his marriage proposal without a moment's hesitation.
The word implies the rejected thing had some claim on acceptance, making the rejection pointed.
A spurned lover is one whose affections were contemptuously refused.
Dismiss as unsuitable
- rebuffAbrupt, curt rejection
- refuseReject or garbage
- declineDecrease or refuse
- repulseDrive back or disgust
brush-off · cold-shoulder · snub · repudiate · disown · forsake · abandon · renounce
Deliberately keep away
- ostracizeExclude from a group
- banishOfficially send away
- blacklistRecord of prohibited entities
- boycottOrganized economic protest
exclude · outcast · pariah · exile · bar · ban · isolate · marginalize
Hostile dismissive feeling
- contemptDisdainful disregard
- disdainScornful disregard
- derisionContemptuous mockery
- sneeringExpressing scorn facially
loathing · revulsion · disgust · aversion · antipathy · condescension · haughtiness · superciliousness
reject
Dismiss as unsuitable
repulse · brush-off · cold-shoulder · snub · repudiate · disown · forsake · abandon · renounce · cast-off
shun
Deliberately keep away
boycott · exclude · outcast · pariah · exile · bar · ban · isolate · marginalize · cold-shoulder
scorn
Hostile dismissive feeling
sneering · loathing · revulsion · disgust · aversion · antipathy · condescension · haughtiness · superciliousness · contemptuousness
eschew
Deliberately abstain from
bypass · deflect · avert · elude · ignore · disregard · overlook · wave-off
- contemptcontempt, scorn, disdain, despise, derision
- dismissdismiss, brush off, brush aside, wave away, wave off
- dismissive behaviorssnub, scorn, ignore, disdain, dismissal
- exclusionexclude, excluded, rule out, banned, bans
- rejectionrejection, reject, denial, refuse, refusal
- removalremove, elimination, delete, erasing, erase