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cold shoulder

NOUN
  1. a refusal to recognize someone you know
    the snub was clearly intentional

How To Use cold shoulder In A Sentence

  • This same publishing industry has turned a cold shoulder to other, less marketable writers.
  • But when Gough looked to Haig for support, he was given the cold shoulder.
  • And she really has no claim on Nate such that he deserves the sniffs of dissaproval, the henpecking or the cold shoulder. How We Were Renewed ...
  • But when Gough looked to Haig for support, he was given the cold shoulder.
  • I shall simply give it the cold shoulder, like I did Christmas, I decided as I arrived at my desk. RESCUING ROSE
  • He encountered storms, bogs and forests, was given the cold shoulder by the inhospitable inhabitants of Fouzilhac, got lost and had to camp out for the first time.
  • Their chat can last for hours or just minutes if the target gives him the cold shoulder. The Sun
  • Browne but Nolan; a stonecold shoulder for Donn Joe Vance; all lock and no stable for Honorbright Merreytrickx; a big drum for Billy Dunboyne; a guilty goldeny bellows, below me blow me, for Ida Ida and a hushaby rocker, Elletrouvetout, for Who-is-silvier — Where-is-he? Finnegans Wake
  • It was agony not being able to understand his reasons forgiving me the cold shoulder. The Sun
  • Just after I'd been given the cold shoulder by his support, I turned around and there he was.
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