Vocabulary
Snub
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
rebuff, ignore, or spurn disdainfully.
Urdu meaning
نظر انداز کرنا، جھڑک دینا،لاتعلقی
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- The lunch was naturally seen as a snub to India, given that Operation Sindoor was launched against Pakistan with expectations of changing the facts on the ground.
- The snub came in response to a proposal made by PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif for an all-parties effort to pull the country out of its crises.
- The party can try and spin it as much as it wants, but this is a snub, BBZ will not find easy to recover from.
- The more public and direct snub by the father in the Geo interview is simply more of the same, in a way.
- That this snub will simply add to the struggles of Bilawal in the eyes of the voters, perhaps does not bother those who think palace intrigues and jorr-torr are easier ways of doing politics.
Synonyms
insult, slight, affront, humiliate, treat disrespectfully, rebuff, spurn, repulse
Curator example
“he snubbed faculty members and students alike”
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