Shunning is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHUNNING in dictionary:

VERB:
• SHUN, to avoid
• persistently avoid, ignore, or reject (someone or something) through antipathy or caution
NOUN:
• deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

Words related to SHUNNING

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How to use SHUNNING in a sentence

• Silent and pensive she wandered about Camp the next day and seemed rather to be shunning the gay groups in Mateka and on the beach.
• Simple, straightforward, reflecting on eternal judgments, shunning all evil, he consecrated the closing hours of an illustrious life.
• The only way the world has known of defeating Satan is by shunning him.
• This habit of shunning the society of all young females, and particularly of the Wood girls, was by no means occasioned by any fears in regard to my own safety.
• Shunning her father and sister, and shunned by them, she waited many sleepless hours in her own apartments for the inevitable news from beyond the walls.
• She glanced around for help, shunning the evil monkey eyes.
• The island offered an ideal retreat for one bent on shunning his own kind, if he did not object to the close proximity of a restive volcano.
• But, shunning long disputes, I fain would see That wondrous wight Infallibility.
• Yet, so that it might not appear that they were shunning the opportunity, they offered their persons.
• She was in bed with a headache, and to this her pale face, her eyes shunning the light like my own, and her hair restlessly tossed over the pillow bore witness.
• It might have been imagination, but he felt, somehow, as if his wife and Kate were shunning him.
• But yet he did not think of shunning the task before him.
• Since old age is inevitable, do not let us try to pretend that it is not, and let us never act as if there were any hope of shunning it.
• There is no other way of shunning a marriage she is incomprehensibly but frantically averse to.
• But suddenly sprang forth the lion and seized the captain, and the men all at once leaped overboard into the strong sea, shunning dread doom, and there were changed into dolphins.
• But that he retreats Although at first incensed, shunning my wrath, Is salutary both for him and me, Whose difference else had not been healed with ease.
• So let the ingenuous mind, studying human character and life, bestow a shunning glance at evil, a fixed gaze on good.
• They should know that when I was shunning prayer because I was so bad, my badness became more abandoned than ever it had been before.
• Theocritus, shunning courts and cities, sought to assuage the pain of life at the heart of Nature, and did not seek in vain.
• He was patient, long-suffering, forbearing, shunning the stain of this earth.
• All next day he loitered idly about, shunning the gaze of every wandering Arab.
• Hale mixed his favourite brew, but Macpherson, shunning the wine of his country, contented himself with a glass of plain mineral water, and lit a cigarette.
• Somehow he interested Frank very much indeed, for the boy realized that there must be some very good reason for his shunning his kind.
• I have, like a hunted wolf, dressed those wounds in mountain-fastnesses, shunning the abode of man, and eluding pursuers whose mercy I disdained to ask.
• She kept her way along dark obscure streets, shunning the lighted thoroughfares.
• But that general, shunning the conflict, moved so far southward into Mississippi that pursuit was imprudent during the hot season.
• These forces of withdrawing and shunning but needing people were like the peculiar components of atoms.
• With a monotonous sameness the days now came and went, people still shunning the house as if the plague was there.
• Always a man of spare habits, shunning the pleasures of the table, he had scarcely taken sufficient to support nature since his health failed.
• After running across lots, turning corners, and shunning my fellow men, as if they were wild ferocious beasts.
• Armstrong walked down the street, but shunning the sight of others, he turned at the first opportunity into an unfrequented road.

Similar words containing SHUNN without suffix ing

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