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Definition

reject as not good enough

She spurned his advances.

spurned = rejected

She spurned both major parties in the last election.

spurned = rejected

They spurn and hate me.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

spurn = reject

I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

spurned = rejected as not good enough

They were forever ardent and craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

spurned = rejected as not good enough

The young girl spoke in high and enthusiastic terms of her mother, who, born in freedom, spurned the bondage to which she was now reduced.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

spurned = rejected as not good enough

Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

spurn = reject as not good enough

But again when I reflected that they had spurned and deserted me, anger returned, a rage of anger, and unable to injure anything human, I turned my fury towards inanimate objects.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

spurned = rejected as not good enough

The fire of Dorothea's anger was not easily spent, and it flamed out in fitful returns of spurning reproach.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
Yes; spurn me, tread upon me, kill me!
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Rappaccini's Daughter
He insisted that he could not possibly explain why my hospitality had been so rudely spurned .... and he never did.
Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf
I wanted to spurn the Herondale name because I thought I hated my father, but I don't hate him.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Heavenly Fire
"The more fool you!" said Legree, spitting scornfully at him, and spurning him with his foot.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
The worst day was the testimony of the lover who spurned her, Tom Findlay.
Rick Bragg -- All Over but the Shoutin'
The scoot had turned into a skid, and the Buick was floating dreamily toward the lip of the drop, spurning snow from under its mudguards.
Stephen King -- The Shining
Or you may spurn my lord's friendship and our servant will simply deliver the Book himself while Rowan reaps our wrath.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
Who felt cheated, spurned, and carried a resentment far deeper than what she had revealed.
James Patterson -- 1st to Die
She sent a man who had long loved me, though I spurned his advances, to find me.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
If I pitied you for crying and looking so very frightened, you should spurn such pity.
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
The brothers would stumble home late, stepping on Papi, howling about some morena who had spurned them to their faces.
Junot Diaz -- Drown

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