A life ignored by all respectable people; a name spurned with the foot and scorned on the tongue. From Wordnik.com. [The Gold of Chickaree] Reference
Allowing McCain to win and appoint more right-wingers to the courts because you feel spurned is very dangerous. From Wordnik.com. [Exit polls: Half of Clinton's supporters won't back Obama] Reference
Sosa watch: The wad of dollars Hampton spurned from the Chicago Cubs would seem to bode well for Sammy Sosa getting a contract extension. From Wordnik.com. [Winter meetings notebook] Reference
Once again, the dollar is being "spurned", says Lex in the Financial Times. From Wordnik.com. [MoneyWeek RSS - All] Reference
According to Godsell, Maroga denied he had resigned, and "spurned" two offers to resolve the matter. From Wordnik.com. [Mail & Guardian Online] Reference
Goldman's Lobbying Clout - Is Goldman Sachs still feared and courted in the halls of power or is it "spurned"?. From Wordnik.com. [Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now] Reference
He had found the way, the way the Jews had spurned. From Wordnik.com. [T.S. Eliot And The Jews] Reference
But, he claims, BBC officials have spurned his efforts at dialogue. From Wordnik.com. [Turning Down The News] Reference
Not that New Labour spurned links with businessmen – far from it. From Wordnik.com. [Nadir's return reminds us that mixing business with politics is a dangerous game] Reference
His aides said Hamzy accosted the governor and he spurned her advances. From Wordnik.com. [The Legal Lowdown] Reference
Love spurned or lost has been the spark for some terrible conflagrations. From Wordnik.com. [The Scorched-Earth Obsession] Reference
Ptak orders as many as five a month, though she has spurned pay-per-view. From Wordnik.com. [The New Cable Guy] Reference
Thain spurned such responsible behavior, as have many of his corporate cronies. From Wordnik.com. [Buzzword: Spartaneity] Reference
Jen felt slightly winded but was spurned on by the immense woman's huge eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Shopkeeper] Reference
The comparatively gallant gesture apparently didn't assuage the spurned partner. From Wordnik.com. [Get Out of the Deal, Neal] Reference
Vajpayee spurned the freedom movement led by Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. From Wordnik.com. [In Poetic Search Of Total Power] Reference
Jump-cut to Brooklyn, where Jacob has spurned his Ph.D. and is working as a mailman. From Wordnik.com. [Whose Death Is It Anyway?] Reference
When Picasso's grandson Pablito was spurned by the artist in 1972, he killed himself. From Wordnik.com. [Here's Pablo!] Reference
According to Saheb, Omar initially spurned advisers who begged him to flee to safety. From Wordnik.com. [Mulla Omar Off The Record] Reference
Succumbing to imperial temptation, it has spurned friends and international institutions. From Wordnik.com. [Why the World Still Needs Mr. Big] Reference
Musharraf, formerly spurned as a military dictator, quickly became a valued friend to the West. From Wordnik.com. [Pakistan's Striving Son] Reference
But his own organization spurned him, opting instead for a well-orchestrated publicity campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Taking Up Arms Against Aids] Reference
His enormous output, more than 400 works, was spurned in his lifetime and has been ignored since. From Wordnik.com. [The Rake's Progress; BBC Prom 35; Three Choirs festival] Reference
In lining up a new successor, they note, Arledge spurned yet another erstwhile heir apparent, Paul. From Wordnik.com. [There's Still Plenty Of Roone At The Top] Reference
These are three of the many thousands of volunteers whose patriotism has been spurned by Washington. From Wordnik.com. [Do The Nation A Service] Reference
This approach has been savaged by the privacy activists and spurned by the companies asked to sell it. From Wordnik.com. [Trying To Find The Key] Reference
Following the no-carb gospel, millions of Americans spurned carbohydrates in hopes of shedding pounds. From Wordnik.com. [Fat, Carbs and the Science of Conception] Reference
France still feels slighted over Iraq, where its offer to train military police officers has been spurned. From Wordnik.com. [The Oval: Bush's European Roadshow] Reference
And during the fall of Zaire's Mobutu Sese Seko, rebel leader Laurent Kabila spurned his mediation efforts. From Wordnik.com. [On The Go In His Golden Years] Reference
Feeling spurned, perhaps, the hippo jumped over his electric fence, and chewed his longtime friend to death. From Wordnik.com. [Hungry Hippo] Reference
A cool, iconoclastic customer, he scorned sentimentality, upended the rules of genre, spurned happy endings. From Wordnik.com. [The Maverick of Movieland] Reference
As for Steve Flannigan, he, too, had spurned efforts by U.S. support groups to recruit him after the tragedy. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Victims] Reference
The experts, whose advice is now being spurned, know the destabilizing effect of such an action all too well. From Wordnik.com. ['A Tremendous Mistake'] Reference
London's mayor has spurned his official limo and imposed a whopping charge on drivers entering the city center. From Wordnik.com. [When Is Big Too Big?] Reference
But, in Los Angeles as everywhere else, Kennedy spurned police protection and offered himself to his worshipers. From Wordnik.com. [Bobby's Last, Longest Day] Reference
Once upon a time, the "flat tax" was just a pet cause of free-market ideologues, spurned by practical politicians. From Wordnik.com. [The New Orthodoxy] Reference
The tale of how he and the principles he stood for were spurned stands as one of the tragedies of modern politics. From Wordnik.com. [Loyal Maverick] Reference
When Netscape spurned Microsoft, the court found the software giant withheld technical blueprints from the start-up. From Wordnik.com. [The Trial's Uneasy Fallout] Reference
Latin America ends up looking like a spurned lover: Washington flirted, but now can't decide if it really wants a serious relationship. From Wordnik.com. [Drifting Away] Reference
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