I am sure I had no more idea of snubbing him than I had of snubbing you; that is the way in which I always cut my own throat!
And so, to pass briefly and lightly, over an unpleasant subject, Fuzby was brimming over with the concentrated meanness of petty malignant natures, united in the one sole object of snubbing and worrying the unhappy curate.
Fred was always finding fault with her and snubbing her, which brought him nothing but pert replies; then he would entreat mother to send her to school, but somehow she never went.
Her reticence became almost snubbing in its strictness when he asked her about her school-teaching in the winter; but he found that she taught at the little school-house at the foot of the hill, and lived at home with her father.
She exulted in his pride, and she took all his snubbing reserves tenderly, as so many proofs of his success.
They attached the line with which they had been snubbing the boat to Buck's neck and shoulders, being careful that it should neither strangle him nor impede his swimming, and launched him into the stream.
Hans and Pete moved along the bank, snubbing with a thin Manila rope from tree to tree, while Thornton remained in the boat, helping its descent by means of a pole, and shouting directions to the shore.
If you would excuse me, aunt, I should prefer to stay," said Ruth humbly, and with a lively recollection of the snubbing she had once received for eagerly embracing a similar offer.
Hence that "snubbing on money matters" to which we have seen Hobhouse referring; and the word "snubbing" may well have been a euphemism for more severe remonstrance when executions began to be levied.
You've been getting a snubbing there," says his friend, this time unfeelingly and with an inhuman chuckle.
I cannot think anything later half as strange as this sudden announcement that you are going away, and your snubbing me," said Tom.
I have asked your Doctor Tom to be Benedick--an added reason for our Beatrice to be a success, if my observations the last few times that I have seen Bab with him and marked her snubbing of him are correct.
He only resolved that in future he would take precious good care that when there was any snubbing in the air, he would be the dispenser of it, not the recipient.
What fun do I have as it is but quarreling with Miss Wentstile and snubbing Harry Bradish?
The spinster had been hovering about the Count ever since his accident with the teacup, apparently seeking an opportunity of snubbing him.
And the married daughters of the house were there also, striving to maintain their positions on the strength of their undoubted birth, but subjected to some snubbing by the lowness of their absolute circumstances.
It was generally thought about the place that Miss Lily was Hopkins's favourite, though he showed it chiefly by snubbing her more frequently than he snubbed her sister.
Directly domineering ceases in the man, snubbing begins in the woman; the trite but no less unfortunate fact being that the gentler creature rarely has the capacity to appreciate fair treatment from her natural complement.
The woman she has offended will take her revenge by flirting more or less openly with the husband, all the while loading the enemy with flattery if she be afraid of her, or snubbing her without much disguise if she feel herself the stronger.
No one can inflict such humiliation on a woman as can a woman when she chooses; for if the art of high-handed snubbing belongs to men, that of subtle wounding is peculiarly feminine, and is practised by the best-bred of the sex.
While one preaches, the other ridicules; and snubbingdoes more than condemnation.
But what are you going to do with a snubbing like that?
He had the effect of shutting his wife out of the conversation; of definitely snubbingand discountenancing her.
Hank helped himself to a fresh club--a stouter one than that which he had broken over the snubbing post at the dock.
In that instant Tom, leaving the wheel, bounded up onto the dock, bow hawser in hand, and made the loop fast over the snubbing post.
Hank Butts brought his club down over a snubbing post with such force as to shatter the weapon.
My private life, dear old fellow, if you will forgive me snubbing you, is a matter on which nobody is an authority except A.
Against all the rules of my office, dear old thing, if you don't mind me snubbing you a bit.
And Paolina felt sufficiently grateful to him for the amount of snubbing contained in his accent to say the first words she had spoken since they entered the room.
Remember all the snubbing he has had from the poor Diva all through carnival.
It makes your sympathies wider, and you can save the snubbing for Mr. Long when he comes home again.
It was really quite useless to attempt to be polite to him if he would come so persistently within snubbing distance.
Having duly punished him for snubbing her, she returned with serenity to the work upon her lap.
The perpetual snubbing that he had received from Ethelberta ever since he had known her seemed about to be continued through the medium of her dependents.
And for this Lucy loved her, and hated her self-constituted allies, snubbing their advances on all occasions and showering unnecessary favours on the haughty nurse.
Jean Murray, who had also been examining her closely in her turn, evidently seemed to think a further snubbingwas required of her.
Even the presence of Barbara Berkeley's clever brother, which was paralysing her, could not keep the leader of the junior playroom from snubbing Angela.
And she came as near snubbing any one then as she ever did in the whole of her school career.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snubbing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
