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reject as not good enough- She spurned his advances.
spurned = rejected
- She spurned both major parties in the last election.
- 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
- They spurn and hate me.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- They were forever ardent and craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- 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
- 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
- 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
spurned = rejected
spurned = rejected as not good enough
spurn = reject
spurned = rejected as not good enough
spurned = rejected as not good enough
spurn = reject as not good enough
spurned = rejected as not good enough