'spurn' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is the verb form of the noun 'spurner' and is used to indicate the rejection of something or someone. Example sentence: The young couple spurned their parents' attempts to make them reconcile.
As a great, multicultural world city, London need not defend English monoculture or spurn the diversity and tolerance that are a key to municipal success.
I managed to spurn the "creme brulee latte" and the cappuccino was pretty good, with a discernible, pleasantly muddy flavour.
It was he who presented Michael Bradley with an open goal in the 55th minute, racing past a defender before taking Portugal's goalkeeper, Beto, out of the picture with a perfectly timed pass – only to watch his midfield team-mate spurn the opportunity.
His aides argued that Miliband could not spurn any platform to make his case to be prime minister to the British public.
Now, even in the top 50 firms and counting generously, only 24 are European.In this section The shrinking company The big five hit the web The quiet man Cisco's reluctant evangelist The carve-up Old Russian customs When I grow up Taking the ads out of television ReprintsWhy do Europe's young appear to spurn Europe's big employers?
Farmers and fishermen in Grand'Anse, a verdant department that was hit badly by a recent hurricane, have seen sales plummet as customers spurn local foodstuffs.Potential investors are also being scared off by cholera, even though it can be easily prevented with good sanitation and clean drinking water (or treated by oral rehydration).
It would seem to spurn the voters of Massachusetts, too.
They spurn the cultural and geographic stories of their forebears in favour of an approach rooted solely in institutional economics, which studies the impact of political environments on economic outcomes.
Other local firms make lousy knock-offs that big Chinese businesses would spurn.
In contrast, Mr Levenson seems to want the Hawks to spurn their current fans in order to court lighter-skinned ones from the distant suburbs an economically risky as well as socially reprehensible bet.Even if one accepts the narrative that Mr Levenson was simply trying to run a profit-maximising business in a racist society, few will feel much sympathy for his plight.
The job was thrown open on March 23rd when Mr Yeltsin sacked Viktor Chernomyrdin and put in an obscure former energy minister, Sergei Kiriyenko, as his acting replacement.But Mr Luzhkov might well spurn the prime minister's post even if offered it.
