SPURNS Synonyms: 127 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

present tense third-person singular of spurn

as in refuses

to show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree to fiercely independent, the elderly couple spurned all offers of financial help

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spurns

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noun

plural of spurn

as in rebuffs

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Recent Examples of spurns

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And Newsom typically spurns laws that make changes to the state budget after those fiscal discussions conclude in the first half of the calendar year. — Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026 The pool of journalists who took that protective journey with him reflected the very racial and gender diversity that the current president spurns today. — Sonya Ross For The Atlanta Journal-Contitution, AJC.com, 11 Sep. 2026 But when a suspicious blaze kills their mom and dad, Guinevere carries on the legacy Ennis spurns, until the past erupts into the present, revealing terrifying truths about who their parents really were. — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 7 June 2026 The New York Knicks’ president, a stout, taciturn man, surly about the mouth, who spurns engagement with the media but whose competence no contemporary Knicks follower can gainsay, stands in a crowd, surrounded by cheering fans. — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 2 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for spurns

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For Wilder residents, the La Catedral raid remains an open wound that refuses to heal.

— Philip Wang, Time, 19 Oct. 2026
After that, Grace all but disappears from Crystal Lake, exposing the haphazard plotting of a show that refuses to commit.

— Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of refuses

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Any strategy that ignores that skepticism is unlikely to survive the next election or to be funded by the Congress that is likely to emerge from it.

— Philip H. Gordon, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2026
But the unbridled embrace of aquaculture as a sustainable answer to feeding the planet ignores some very real costs.

— Ian Urbina, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026