Meaning of snub | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A deliberate affront or slight.
2. A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
3. A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub.”

“It was part of Evelyn’s character that in spite of many snubs which she received or imagined, she never gave up the pursuit of people she wanted to know, and in the long run generally succeeded in knowing them and even in making them like her.”

“The bluntness of King Vajiralongkorn's intervention—and the determination it reveals to resist relatively small checks on royal power—is both a snub to the junta and a worry for democrats, some of whom had dared hope that the new king might be happy to take a back seat in public life.”

“The snub from a traditional ally to Putin, who had hosted an inconsequential meeting of the warring countries’ leaders last month, comes immediately on the back of his disastrous summit with six former Soviet states.”

“[A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain.”

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