| 单词 | brush someone off |
| 释义 | (phrasal verb) Definition to dismiss and ignore (a person), esp. curtly She just brushed me off. Synonyms ignore I kept sending letters and cards but he just ignored me. cut (informal) She just cut me in the street. reject Paloma has rejected the values of her rich parents. dismiss She dismissed the reports as mere speculation. slight They felt slighted by not being adequately consulted. blank (slang) put down snub He snubbed her in public and made her feel an idiot. disregard scorn people who scorned traditional methods People scorn me as a single parent. disdain a political leader who disdained the compromises of politics spurn a spurned lover rebuff After the argument he rebuffed all their invitations. repudiate He repudiated any form of nationalism. disown Those comments were later disowned. cold-shoulder kiss off (slang, mainly US, Canadian) send to Coventry Additional synonymsin the sense of cut Definition to pretend not to recognize She just cut me in the street. Synonyms ignore, avoid, slight, blank (slang), snub, spurn, freeze (someone) out (informal), cold-shoulder, turn your back on, send to Coventry, look straight through (someone) in the sense of disdain Definition to refuse or reject with disdain a political leader who disdained the compromises of politics Synonyms scorn, reject, despise, slight, disregard, spurn, undervalue, deride, look down on, belittle, sneer at, pooh-pooh, contemn, look down your nose at (informal), misprize in the sense of dismiss Definition to put out of one's mind She dismissed the reports as mere speculation. Synonyms reject, disregard, spurn, repudiate, pooh-poohNearby words of |
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