0 present participle of spurn
1 to refuse to accept something or someone because you feel that thing or person is not worth having:
It reflects an irresistible trend in the academy toward spurning unified schemes and hierarchies of every kind.
She thrived on her success and fame as an efficient hospital builder and director, while gleefully spurning male advances.
Under those circumstances, important epistemic resources for spurning discriminatory utterances are not readily available, so that it makes sense to suppose that hurtful actions are ipso facto harmful.
The largest group which is generally spurning the move towards the loss of the final -al is the group ending in -logical, such as archaeological, biological, ecological, meteorological, psychological, theological.
Such parents try to survive by spurning luxuries and accept that their living standards frequently will fall below those of immediate neighbours.
Is he spurning democratic control over these institutions?
They will reap the reward of spurning consensus, both in another place and outside, in the time shortly to come.
If we turn our backs on that idea, we shall be neither understood nor forgiven for spurning this opportunity.
