shun

Object

• limelight: There are lots of reasons why rich people choose to shun the limelight.
• spotlight: The Welsh band, who have shunned the media spotlight, released their last single The Masses Against the Classes in January 2000.
• publicity: Richard Guy is the first farmer I've come across who does not shun publicity.
• sin: He is calling on us to remember some things that will enable us to shun sin.
• evil: As Job 28:28 says, The fear of the Lord - that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding.
• regime: On one hand, the international community has shunned the military regime that took control of the government by force in 1988.

Adjective complement

• evil: They do not have to reason in order to shun evil.

Modifying Another Word

• largely: Historians of political thought have largely shunned the work.
• once: Relatives and friends who once shunned him, hugged and kissed him.
• previously: Agents who previously shunned formality can now be expected to seek formal agreements.
• even: He's even shunned by the kids at the fat table at school, friendless and alone.
• always: And finally The Real Meat Company has always shunned sponsorship.

Used with why or when

• what: Miller also explores the shadow realm of those who shun what Hume called the conversible world.

Infinitive complement

• declare: For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

Preposition: in

• favor: Well, almost; PUT will have been shunned in favor of POST, which all Web browsers actually contain support for.

Preposition: by

• rest: Dalits do the jobs shunned by the rest of society.
• society: Also a divorced woman was shunned by society and treated as an outcast.
• man: Perhaps it was just an effete London thing shunned by real men who were into spanners, grease and steam.
• people: Used at one time as a burial ground, it was shunned by people even during the day-time for fear of ghosts.