snub

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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