Synonyms for SHUNNING
- duckings,
- conspiracy,
- scheme,
- Shunting,
- eschewing,
- Vetoing,
- Prohibiting,
- barring,
- fadeout,
- shrinking,
- balking,
- Rejecting,
- absention,
- Ostracizing,
- evasion,
- evasive action,
- Negativing,
- banning,
- escapement,
- extrication,
- intrigue,
- avoidance,
- copout,
- runaround,
- Refusing,
- shirking,
- Evading,
- censoring,
- lam,
- Sidetracking,
- plot,
- Flinching,
- chart,
- Jink,
- Preventing,
- Recoiling,
- circumvention,
- fancy footwork,
- jive,
- Skipping,
- Blackballing,
- zigzag,
- forestalling,
- averting,
- Disdaining,
- cold-shouldering,
- elopement,
- schedule,
- skirting,
- Circumventing,
- elusion,
- Ignoring,
- defense mechanism,
- sidestep,
- method,
- obliqueness,
- eschewal,
- diagram,
- prevention,
- getting around,
- quibble,
- contrivance,
- cop-out,
- elusions,
- equivocation,
- device,
- Fearing,
- by-passing,
- tossing,
- come-off,
- Escaping,
- frame,
- hegira,
- Banishing,
- Discarding,
- cop out,
- noninvolvement,
- Excluding,
- elusiveness,
- Avoiding,
- avoiding reaction,
- forbearance,
- shaking,
- Parrying,
- system,
- escapism,
- OUTS,
- roundabouts,
- evasiveness,
- neutrality,
- run-around,
- project,
- nonintervention,
- shufflings,
- out,
- figure,
- extrications,
- slip,
- bypassing,
- declining,
- cop-outs,
- fugiviteness,
- Abstaining,
- Fending,
- Refraining,
- forbearing,
- aversion,
- cunnings,
- ducking,
- escape,
- steering clear of,
- nonparticipation,
- relegating,
- rejection,
- design,
- dodge,
- run around,
- eluding,
- ostracising,
- turning away,
- shy,
- restraint,
- jives,
- plan,
- Disposing,
- dodging,
- sidestepping,
- duck,
- ostracism,
- elopements,
- forestallment,
- fugivity,
- arrangement,
- obviating.
Usage Examples for SHUNNING
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I spared his friends, chums, associates, excellent men of a kind, the trial of their attachment by shunning them. - "The Adventures of Harry Richmond, Complete" by George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009
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Carefully shunning the character of the professed wit, or the general talker, he was yet piquant, shrewd, and animated to the few persons whom he addressed, or with whom he associated: and though he had refused all offers to enter public life, he was sufficiently master of the graver subjects that agitated the times to impress even those practically engaged in them with a belief in his information and his talents. - "Godolphin, Volume 2." by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
