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spurn

Best crossword clue

"Reject with contempt"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /spɜːn/Part of speech verbSorted nprsuStarts with SEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. reject with contempt

Word origin

From Middle English spurnen, spornen, from Old English spurnan (“to strike against, kick, spurn, reject; stumble”), from Proto-Germanic *spurnaną (“to tread, kick, knock out”), from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-.

Used in a sentence

  • to spurn at your most royal image
  • What safe and nicely I might well delay By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn.
  • Domestics will pay a more ready and cheerful service, when they find themselves not spurned, because fortune has laid them below the level of others, at their master's feet.

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