spurned

[ spurnd ]

adjective

1. treated or rejected with scorn or contempt:

   It should be instructive to us that some of the spurned recommendations were very effective when belatedly implemented years after they were made.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of spurn.

Other Words From

• un·spurned adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of spurned¹

spurn ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

Both candidates have pledged to sign the security pact that outgoing President Hamid Karzai has spurned.

From The Daily Beast

But Bush administration neocons, salivating over regime change in Iran, spurned this extraordinary deal.

From The Daily Beast

To the fury of the old guard, he spurned the right wing of his party to win the Republican presidential nomination in 1940.

From The Daily Beast

Eli Lake on the years of mistrust (and spurned cash) between the two nations.

From The Daily Beast

The lesson is this: Spurned lovers have a tendency to go ballistic.

From The Daily Beast

He spurned the bundle with his foot, while the stranger stopped suddenly, as if a blow had been struck him.

From Project Gutenberg

In a strong man's love for his home and his mate was it rooted, and drew therefrom the wormwood of love thwarted and spurned.

From Project Gutenberg

He ate irregularly, of such things as he could put his hands upon; and sleep fled from him like a mistress spurned.

From Project Gutenberg

Elizabeth spurned this indirect mode of acknowledging herself guilty.

From Project Gutenberg

They then reviled him, and spurned him away from their sight, and began to meditate measures of violence against him.

From Project Gutenberg