Deliberate affront

Usage examples of snub.

Clipping the beeper safely to his belt, Nathan presses thumb and forefinger, his messages flying off to wherever they fly, to message heaven, the graveyard of electronically snubbed pleas and particles of undesired need.

Therese, seeing that he was posing as master of the field, and that his manners disgusted me, began to snub him, much to his displeasure, and after sneering at the poorness of the dishes, and praising the wine which he had supplied, he went out leaving us to finish our dessert by ourselves.

At tea-time, and during the early part of the evening, she was preoccupied and inclined to be irritable in her anxiety, and she snubbed Bunty two or three times quite unkindly.

As she smiled, white teeth flashed in a big mouth with bold lines and her cheeks were chubbily rounded on either side of a slightly snub nose with a childish, round tip to it that made the face gentle and kindly.

And the occasion which produced that prosaic thought was a night well calculated to make one think of supper and fireside, though the one might be frugal and the other lonely, and as I, Gulliver Jones, the poor foresaid Navy lieutenant, with the honoured stars of our Republic on my collar, and an undeserved snub from those in authority rankling in my heart, picked my way homeward by a short cut through the dismalness of a New York slum I longed for steak and stout, slippers and a pipe, with all the pathetic keenness of a troubled soul.

Juliette had ridden Oriflamme across the lawn this morning, cutting it up badly, and had followed this by snubbing Lady Hawkchurch.

An incongruous snub nose poked out of the undergrowth, surmounted by a pair of wide and gentle hazel eyes.

His uncle Pomfret was a big, broad, stout man with a very red face, large wide-open eyes and a little snub nose.

Big bland blue eyes, and a snub nose and a puckery little mouth, and two chins.

Jameson lost his step, trying to avoid tripping over the thing, and was rewarded by a painful yank of the cord snubbed around his septum.

The four-foot bubble with the Cygnan and the two humanoids curled inside was snubbed securely to the shaft.

The bubble with its curled-up Cygnan and fetal humanoids was still snubbed in place.

Babe to ask so she could apologize to whomever she had inadvertently snubbed, some wild-headed woman swathed in fur.

And sentenced himself thereby to four years of skulking around a city which snubbed him unmercifully, while big brother Appius in the East accomplished deeds which showed all of Rome that he was a true Claudian when it came to making mischief.

I had not seen her, and had talked for a long time to Leonard--I had snubbed him for no reason, and that should have warned me I was in danger.