Turn one's nose up at

Usage examples of spurn.

The Bashaw used to come to visit his slave there, and beat, spurn, and revile him.

I good occasion ministred, to revenge the injury of my master, for as I passed by, I perceived the fingers of the young-man upon the side of the binne, and lifting up my heeles, I spurned off the flesh with the force of my hoofes, whereby he was compelled to cry out, and to throw downe the binne on the ground, and so the whoredome of the Bakers wife was knowne and revealed.

Not eastern bombast, nor the savage rant Of purpled madmen, were they numbered all From Roman Nero, down to Russian Paul, Could grate upon my ear so mean, so base, As the rank jargon of that factious race, Who, poor of heart, and prodigal of words, Born to be slaves, and struggling to be lords, But pant for licence, while they spurn controul, And shout for rights, with rapine in their soul!

Secondly, this doctrinal system seems to us equally irreconcilable with history and with ethics: it seems to trample on the surest convictions of reason and conscience, and spurn the clearest principles of nature and religion, to blacken and load the heart and doom of man with a mountain of gratuitous horror, and shroud the face and throne of God in a pall of wilful barbarity.

All these months, you neglected me and avoided my bed, feigning illness and weakness, spurning my affections, and all the while you were falling under the spell of this.

Pink singing scallops were an uneaten oddity, mussel cultivation was unknown, geoducks were spurned by everyone but a few fishermen, and the salmon caviar was shipped abroad.

A special soul, yet judged as general -- The endless grief of art, the sneer that slays, The war, the wound, the groan, the funeral pall -- Not into these, bright spirit, do we yearn To bring thee back, but oh, to be, to be Unbound of all these gyves, to stretch, to spurn The dark from off our dolorous lids, to see Our spark, Conjecture, blaze and sunwise burn, And suddenly to stand again by thee!

We were sitting now in a corner booth of the Zimmertal, a becurtained Konditorei down the hill from the American enclave where the high school was, a place our classmates spurned in favor of the snack bar at the base exchange with its molded plastic chairs, ferociously orange.

He snottily spurned instruction from their tour guide, whoEugenie had noticed in the light of daywas quite attractive.

He rides triumphant, spurning the dim Earth-- Whither, O whither goest thou?

And therewithall they pulled him downe to the ground, beating him with their fists, and spurning him with their feete.

And if Lenz tries to temper the spurning by telling Green he likes him, where the fuck is he supposed to look when he says it?

Jillie a favor she could not begin to comprehend or appreciate by spurning her naive affections.

Bannor forced himself to turn a blind eye to their devilish doings, promising himself that every humiliation Willow endured at their hands would only serve to spare her pride when she was finally goaded into spurning him.

When Barns rose from my side, spurning me with his foot, I had been well used.