0 to refuse to accept something or someone because you feel that thing or person is not worth having:
The theme of ' ' charity ' ' is revisited only to be spurned.
And not surprisingly, intimate local knowledge of the land and its resources is spurned.
It reflects an irresistible trend in the academy toward spurning unified schemes and hierarchies of every kind.
The emphasis is on opportunities lost or spurned.
That is, they spurned the idea that market forces determine the outcome of the struggle.
Functional languages typically spurn explicit mutation of data structures, which means that data structures in functional languages tend to be persistent.
It becomes a tribute spurned, leaving him in mastery.
All of the other contributions employ the ' disembodied sentences ' supposedly spurned by the cognitive-functional approach.