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Example sentences for "snubbed"

Lexicographically close words:
snowslide; snowstorm; snowstorms; snowy; snub; snubbing; snubs; snuck; snuff; snuffbox
  1. Kipling neither snubbed nor patronized; he was all gaiety and good-nature; but he would have been first to feel what one meant.

  2. But, on the other hand, he had been awfully knocked about, and, almost as bad, he had been effectively snubbed by Mr Rastle.

  3. I can't remember having--" "Having snubbed me badly since that night.

  4. Fred always after dinner would let out a warm word or so, and was at once snubbed by Laura.

  5. I tried it on with Harriet, but she so snubbed me, that I set her down as an impregnable virgin.

  6. I'm being gradually snubbed and scared into treasons, stratagems, and spoils.

  7. Mrs. Alexander snubbed Polly whenever she scorned Jimmy; and Angela made much of the lady because she showed her partisanship for the young man, so openly.

  8. Ma sent me to a swell seminary near our new house, but the girls snubbed me, and I never had a pal all the time I was there.

  9. Mysie knew it was her turn, but she also knew that nurse always favoured Gillian and snubbed her.

  10. Constance did not like Lady Merrifield, who had unconsciously snubbed some of her affectations, and nipped in the bud a flirtation with Harry, besides calling off some of the curates to be helpful.

  11. Astounded, bewildered, snubbed down to the very dust, Sonnenberg slunk off.

  12. Lady Lancaster snubbed her handmaid so often that Elise rather enjoyed seeing her snubbed in her turn.

  13. I have been thinking that the reason you have snubbed me so unmercifully of late is because I so foolishly gave myself away when I first met you.

  14. I have not snubbed you at all," indignantly.

  15. On the street of his own town, before the eyes of men, he had been snubbed by a school-teacher.

  16. And he, who had never been snubbed before, fell headlong into her trap.

  17. A very homely man named Lincoln went to Cincinnati to try a case before the Supreme Court, and was snubbed by a man named Stanton.

  18. She did not intrude her own affairs upon them, but she was used to conversing kindly with the people about her as equals, and for this offence; on the third day, Miss Sally Broke snubbed her.

  19. Society snubbed him, but still his chariot went round the Row day by day.

  20. One need not treat the average Englishman either with a too effusive cordiality or with that half-contemptuous fear of being snubbed which is of all things the most disagreeable.

  21. But Miss Johnson, to whom Ruth particularly addressed herself, had on occasion been unmercifully snubbed by Mrs. Carrington.

  22. This was opposed by Miss Johnson, always persistently moved to discredit the older woman who had snubbed her socially.

  23. Grace persuaded him to stay to luncheon, and he did, and tried to win Miss Rose out of the dismals, and got incontinently snubbed for his pains.

  24. Rose, that morning, had decidedly snubbed him; Rose, at noon, welcomed him with her most radiant smile.

  25. In times of long peace, the army and the navy are generally unpopular; and the impression that Mr. Sapp had been snubbed by shoulder-strapped men was enough to bring him into favor.

  26. He instantly summoned the offenders before his Council, where they were severely snubbed and forbidden to marry without the king's permission.

  27. Perhaps he thought that, if Burke looked up the passage, he would be snubbed as it were automatically.

  28. I doubt if he had ever intentionally snubbed a man in his life, though, no doubt, he had often done so unintentionally, for he was plain-spoken.

  29. If he sees Lily looking much the same as usual--and you may trust her to do that--he will not think anything about it, and Alexa and Josey must just be well snubbed if they begin any silly chatter.

  30. Can it be possible that he has fallen in love with this very magnificent Miss Western, whom his sister admires so much, and that she has snubbed him?

  31. Lennox never snubbed anybody, but blandly extinguished them by a polite acquiescence in all their affirmations, for the time being, and then went on in his own way as if nothing had been said.

  32. Mrs. Leslie had said impertinent things to her about Ferdinand Lopez, and she had snubbed Mrs. Leslie.

  33. After all, if a boy of twenty chooses to act like a fool he simply gets severely snubbed and, in time, comes to his senses and is forgiven.

  34. Think what it must be to a social climber to have snubbed an earl's third cousin.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snubbed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abbreviated; abridged; abstracted; capsule; clipped; compressed; condensed; cropped; curtailed; docked; elliptic; elliptical; mowed; nipped; pruned; shaved; sheared; shortened; snub; trimmed; unpopular