21 adverbs to describe how to shuns

We might reasonably wonder that he would paint so vivid a representation of that which he so sedulously shunned.

Though entertaining friends, among them Mr. M.G. Lewis and Scrope Davies, he systematically shunned "the locust swarm of English tourists," remarking on their obtrusive platitudes; as when he heard one of them at Chamouni inquire, "Did you ever see anything more truly rural?"

The sentence of excommunication was pronounced against him: he was forbidden access to the sacrifices or public worship: he was debarred all intercourse with his fellow-citizens, even in the common affairs of life: his company was universally shunned, as profane and dangerous.

Johnny wisely shunned desperate measures.

I confess that these last were people I would gladly have shunned, there being something so awful to me in the locked doors (marked with a great red cross, and 'Lord, have mercy on us' writ large upon them) by which the poor fellows sat.

With the fortune she has won from her various lovers Glicera retires from the world and henceforth shuns the society of men.

Instinctively he shunned the porcupine without experiencing the torture of its quills.

Those who act justly do not shun the light, nor do they refuse explanations when the propriety of their conduct is brought into question.

But to do the latter, you must bear in mind that it must never be known that you have a drop of African blood in your veins, or you would be shunned as if you were a pestilence; no matter how fair in complexion or how white you may be.

The sensualist's blue eyes nervously shunned that look of earnest interrogation.

[-11-] Something else that happened not long after these events proved still more clearly that while pretendedly he shunned the title, in reality he desired to assume it.

He may study in them the principles of effect, and try to surprise some of their secrets, but he should resolutely shun all imitation of them.

Even the servants shared in the general satisfaction; for though, under Tira's vigorous rule, no task or duty could be safely shunned or slighted, she proved a kind and even an indulgent mistress to those who showed themselves worthy of her favor.

I forget the name of the lake; but we learned afterwards that the Highlanders consider it the abode of the fairies, or "men of peace," and that it is still superstitiously shunned by them after nightfall.

I. It was a story the pilot told, with his back to his hearers, Keeping his hand on the wheel and his eye on the globe of the jack-staff, Holding the boat to the shore and out of the sweep of the current, Lightly turning aside for the heavy logs of the drift-wood, Widely shunning the snags that made us sardonic obeisance.

Expensive gatherings of my mates I commonly shunned, and all kinds of luxuries I was perfectly a stranger to; and during the time I was employed in cutting the aforementioned quantity of wood, I never was at the expense of six-pence worth of spirits.

But Parsifal repulsed their too fond hearts, And shunned their circle of entwining arms With gentle gesture: "Sweetest sister-flowers, I like ye better in the flowery dance, And when ye give me space to see your charms.

Consciously, though, we shunned sensationalizing and Kaka firmly shot the idea of carrying the day's matka figures.

That as to the signification of dreams, & the objections against them, as being dark and doubtful, they are expressed generally by hierogliphical representations, similies, allusions, and figurative emblematic ways, by which means, for want of interpretation, the thing was not understood, and, consequently, the evil not shunned.

Pleasure was the first modest, coy woman who cruelly shunned him, and the more he pursued her, the more coldly did she seem to fly him.

They were preachers to the corporate conscience of Israel, and dealt with subjects which the modern pulpit effeminately shuns.

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