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verb / noun

snub

SNUB/snʌb/

A rude act of ignoring or rejecting someone.

The man turns away from the offered handshake in an obvious snub.

A man conspicuously refuses another man's offered handshake, turning his face away with a disdainful expression while keeping his hands clasped behind his back.
Etymology
snubOld Norseto chide, reprove

Snubba meant “to chide or reprove.” English snub shifted from an explicit rebuke to cold treatment, making deliberate disregard a way of expressing disapproval.

In context

Libranima374:16
he is always dejected and downcast because the other thieves that were left behind and that march here ill- treat, and snub, and jeer, and despise him for confessing and not having spirit enough to say nay
Don Quixote - Cervantes (Illustrated Audiobook) Part 1 of 4

More examples

  • She feels hurt by the unexpected snub.
  • The committee snubbed the longtime volunteer.
  • His refusal to acknowledge them is a deliberate snub.

Forms

snub · snubs · snubbed · snubbing

Similar words

rebuff
A rebuff firmly rejects an approach; a snub often works by deliberately ignoring someone.
slight
A slight is a disrespectful act; a snub especially involves cold rejection or disregard.