Sentence examples for snubs which from inspiring English sources

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Microaggressions can be described as the daily verbal, nonverbal and behavioral slights, insults or snubs, which may be intentional or unintentional, but nonetheless communicate negative, antagonistic or disparaging messages to those around you.

Razzie voters have taken a page out of the Academy's playbook and left us with a handful of so-called snubs, which raises the question: Were we the only ones forced to endure the painful attempt at slapstick comedy known as "Identity Thief"?

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She is only the second person this century to suffer the snub, which came at the most crowded meeting of Congregation that most of those present could remember.

In soccer, David Beckham's exclusion from the British Olympic team was considered a terrible snub, which makes sense until you consider that, save for three wild-card slots, Olympic soccer teams are made up entirely of players under twenty-three years old.

Speaking at the Global Universities Summit, Mr Johnson, also an Oxford graduate, recalled the university's snub, which meant Baroness Thatcher was the first post-war prime minister educated at Oxford to be denied this honour.

Victor Homola (NYT) MONTENEGRO: TIES TO ALBANIA -- The Yugoslav republic signed two agreements to strengthen relations with Albania, snubbing Belgrade, which broke off diplomatic ties with Albania last year.

Lacking a snub from which to pivot, Trump did the only thing he could do as a member of the now-five-member living president's club: He issued an appropriate official statement on Bush's passing, largely steered clear of the week's Bush remembrances and showed up for the funeral at which he had no speaking role.

Two other notable guild snubs: "The Master," which, despite its exacting cinema-ness, seems to have fallen off most Oscar-watchers' lists, and "Moonrise Kingdom," which may have suffered from category confusion.

But there were also some high-profile snubs for films which met eligibility criteria but were ignored by the body, most notably War Horse, adapted by Lee Hall and Richard Curtis, and Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life.

Short, scrubby trees dot the prairie, over which snub-nosed prairie falcons govern.

His party is snubbing the demonstrations, which are banned under the emergency laws but which smaller opposition groups vow will be repeated every Saturday until the government changes.

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