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Spurn [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.

2. The insolence of office, and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes.

Spurn [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To manifest disdain in rejecting any thing; as, to spurn at the gracious offers of pardon.

2. To make contemptuous opposition; to manifest disdain in resistance.

3. Nay more, to spurn at your most royal image.

4. To kick or toss up the heels.

5. The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns.

Spurn [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To kick; to drive back or away, as with the foot.

2. To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept. What multitudes of rational beings spurn the offers of eternal happiness!

3. To treat with contempt.

Spurn [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A kick; a blow with the foot.

2. Disdainful rejection; contemptuous tratment.

3. A body of coal left to sustain an overhanding mass.

Spurn [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To kick or toss up the heels.

2. To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance.

Spurn [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.

2. To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with contempt.

Spurn-water [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

SPURN-WATER , In ships, a channel at the end of a deck to restrain the water.

Spurn-water [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A channel at the end of a deck to restrain the water.

Spurned [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Rejected with disdain; treated with contempt.

Spurned [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Spurner [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who spurns.

Spurner [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who spurns.

Spurney [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A plant.

Spurning [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Rejecting with contempt.

Spurning [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Refusal Roget’s Thesaurus §764

N. refusal, rejection, noncompliance, incompliance, denial, declining, declension, declinature, peremptory refusal, flat refusal, point blank refusal, repulse, rebuff, discountenance, recusancy, abnegation, protest, disclaimer, dissent, revocation

V. refuse, reject, deny, decline, turn down, nill, negative, refuse one's assent, withhold one's assent, shake the head, close the hand, close the purse, grudge, begrudge, be slow to, hang fire, pass, be deaf to, dismiss, turn a deaf ear to, turn one's back upon, set one's face against, discountenance, not hear of, have nothing to do with, wash one's hands of, stand aloof, forswear, set aside, cast behind one, not yield an inch, resist, cross, not grant, repel, repulse, shut the door in one's face, slam the door in one's face, rebuff, send back, send to the right about, send away with a flea in the ear, deny oneself, not be at home to, discard, spurn, &c. (repudiate) 610, rescind, disclaim, protest, dissent

Adj. refusing, restive, restiff|, recusant, uncomplying, unconsenting, not willing to hear of, deaf to, refused, ungranted, out of the question, not to be thought of, impossible

Adv. no, on no account, not for the world, no thank you, thanks but no thanks

Phr. non possumus, your humble servant, bien oblige, not on your life, no way, not even if you beg on your knees

Indifference Roget’s Thesaurus §866

N. indifference, neutrality, coldness, anaphrodisia, unconcern, insouciance, nonchalance, want of interest, want of earnestness, anorexy, anorexia, inappetency, apathy, supineness, disdain, recklessness, inattention, anaphrodisiac, antaphrodisiac, lust-quencher, passion- queller

V. be indifferent, stand neuter, take no interest in, have no desire for, have no taste for, have no relish for, not care for, care nothing for, care nothing about, not care a straw about, not care a fig for, not care a whit about, not mind, set at naught, spurn

Adj. indifferent, cold, frigid, lukewarm, cool, cool as a cucumber, unconcerned, insouciant, phlegmatic, pococurante, easygoing, devil- may-care, careless, listless, lackadaisical, half-hearted, unambitious, unaspiring, undesirous, unsolicitous, unattracted, aloof, unapproachable, remote, uncaring, unattractive, unalluring, undesired, undesirable, uncared for, unwished, unvalued, all one to, insipid, vain

Adv. for aught one cares

Phr. i couldn't care less, i could care less, anything will do, es macht nichts

Int. never mind, who cares? whatever you like, whatever

Contempt Roget’s Thesaurus §930

N. contempt, disdain, scorn, sovereign contempt, despisal, despiciency, despisement, vilipendency|, contumely, slight, sneer, spurn, by-word, despect, contemptuousness, scornful eye, smile of contempt, derision, despisedness

V. despise, contemn, scorn, disdain, feel contempt for, view with a scornful eye, disregard, slight, not mind, pass by, look down upon, hold cheap, hold in contempt, hold in disrespect, think nothing of, think small beer of, make light of, underestimate, esteem slightly, esteem of small or no account, take no account of, care nothing for, set no store by, not care a straw, sneeze at, set at naught, laugh in one's sleeve, laugh up one's sleeve, snap one's fingers at, shrug one's shoulders, turn up one's nose at, pooh-pooh, "damn with faint praise", whistle at, sneer at, curl up one's lip, toss the head, traiter de haut enbas, laugh at, point the finger of scorn, hold up to scorn, laugh to scorn, scout, hoot, flout, hiss, scoff at, turn one's back upon, turn a cold shoulder upon, tread upon, trample upon, trample under foot, spurn, kick, fling to the winds, send away with a flea in the ear

Adj. contemptuous, disdainful, scornful, withering, contumelious, supercilious, cynical, haughty, bumptious, cavalier, derisive, contemptible, despicable, pitiable, pitiful, despised, downtrodden, unenvied, unrespectable (unworthy) 874

Adv. contemptuously

Int. a fig for, bah, never mind, away with, hang it, fiddlededee, phr, "a dismal universal hiss, the sound of public scorn", "i had rather be a dog and bay the moon than such a roman"