Words similar to shunned

Example sentences for: shunned

How can you use “shunned” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

For many, slang and its treatment—however clinical—is taboo, for it is loaded language, not so much with the expected four-letter words (of which there are only a handful) but with racial, religious, and ethnic slurs, which are both derogatory and offensive and are shunned like the plague by liberals.
Financial desperation has led Russia to endeavors shunned by NASA.
Once upon a time, colorful clothing was the sign of unspeakable naiveté or ridiculous ostentation, to be shunned in favor of black by all properly bemused and detached critics of society.
With one fleeting exception, when he shot up, and later blew up, his own cue cards, Dave shunned firearms and explosions.
So far, English speakers have shunned calling anything they say an idiotism, so the ambiguity remains.)