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as in rejected
to deliberately ignore or treat rudely
the snob in town always snubbed anyone she thought was beneath her
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as in disdained
to show contempt for
a social set that snubs anyone below their income bracket
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Recent Examples of snubbed
Follow along to see who got nominated, who was snubbed and who surprised us all.
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Jennifer McClellan, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
Ranger Suárez was an All-Star in 2024 and was snubbed from the All-Star Game last season.
—Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2025
Taylor Swift was not snubbed at the 68th Grammy Awards.
—Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2025
While the award is never given posthumously and Franklin was never nominated, some in the scientific community say she was snubbed.
—Christina Zdanowicz, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
Instead, the Grammys snubbed Lenae in the Best New Artist category, opting to nominate her contemporary Olivia Dean.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
Offerman may have been snubbed for donning tiny hats and dancing on Parks and Recreation, but allowing the same thing to occur for Death by Lightning would be an equally egregious crime.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
Even before the pledge, many Israeli film professionals anecdotally told Deadline that they felt increasingly snubbed on the festival circuit.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2025
Former Vice President Kamala Harris reiterated her regret over Tesla CEO Elon Musk being snubbed four years ago by then-President Joe Biden.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snubbed
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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a liberal Democrat with a pragmatist bent, instantly rejected the suggestion that Mamdani represented the new face of the Democratic Party.—
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Demonstrators argued that taxpayer money should not be used to harm or kill innocent people and rejected claims that the killing of Good was an act of self-defense.—
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Even if the 23rd French president’s time behind bars is cut short, the sound of any jailhouse door hitting him in the rear would be a sweet one for the many, many who disdained his right-wing politics and spectacular thirst for attention.—
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Longbow designed the cabin to keep drivers involved rather than isolated.—
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Public conversations about loneliness tend to collapse a distinction between feeling lonely and being socially isolated—the latter is an objective state that doesn’t inevitably mean a person feels the negative emotions of loneliness.—
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While the Steelers might be disrespected on a national scale after an up-and-down season, the Texans can't take the bait.—
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Employees said they felt disrespected by the process and disrupted from their prior jobs, which included coaching new teachers, providing restorative justice programs and offering specialized services like those for students who are deaf or hard of hearing.—
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For reasons that are quite possibly too unbearable to contemplate, a large group of American voters was not repulsed by such slander—they were actually aroused by it—and our politics have not been the same.—
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Nicole is the kind of wife who moves out of her father’s home into her husband’s home, and who has been taught to be repulsed by the mushroom spores covering her body, just like all the women in their community.—
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Christian Braun hated the view from the sideline.—
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The pioneers of punk music did it because the mainstream crowd hated it.—
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Carolina cut the lead 17-14 at halftime after a 1-yard touchdown run by Hubbard and a 16-yard scramble by Young, the second-longest TD run of his career.—
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This same staff cut him to make room for a waiver-wire claim before the start of the 2024 season.—
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Trump took decisive action Saturday in launching precision military strikes in Venezuela that enabled special forces to seize and detain Maduro, an illegitimate leader despised by his own people.—
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While sweet gum is known and appreciated for its lovely fall color, it is also despised for its seeds.—
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“Snubbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snubbed. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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