Crossword clues for shrug off
The Collaborative International Dictionary
shrug off \shrug off\, v. t. To ignore; to disregard; to brush aside; to minimize[2] the effects of; as, to shrug off predictions of disaster.
Wiktionary
vb. (context idiomatic English) To ignore or disregard; to be indifferent.
WordNet
v. minimize the importance of, brush aside; "Jane shrugged off the news that her stock had fallen 3 points"
Usage examples of "shrug off".
He willed himself to shrug off the dark-winged daemon-body that imprisoned him.
Pol tried to shrug off his discomfort, and turned to go back to the main party.
He shrugged off his annoyance and wished he could also shrug off his only son and heir, who limped into the oratory gripping his cane as if it were a sword.
Three million was not the sort of figure Bernie Johns was likely to shrug off as human error.
Strange, he'd always been able to shrug off his father's views on marriage and children.
His shoulders shuddered, and he didn't have the will or the energy to shrug off Josh's hand.
In the light of day she could shrug off the anxiety it had caused and expend her energy shoveling the latest snowfall.
But other people seldom saw things the same way, and that, too, he'd learned to shrug off.
Their quickening emanations urged her to shrug off some of her numbness.
That right there is a major factor, since it will shrug off some of the missiles that get through, whereas ours will all hammer him.
He had neither the taste for brutality nor the cold character a crew boss needed to rule, and he could never shrug off the murder of a former friend's wife.
She'd seem Matteo shrug off magical spells that would have knocked most men flat on their backs, if not into whatever afterlife they had right to expect.
It was one of the reasons he'd come back now, he supposed: to be able to shrug off the shroud of the place and finally say, 'There was nothing here for them .
The threat was not something he could simply shrug off in a display of youthful, ignorant bravado.