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minimize the importance of, brush aside
Jane shrugged off the news that her stock had fallen 3 points
How To Use shrug off In A Sentence
- You tend to thrive on your own and shrug off most affection.
- The company recently reassured investors that it could shrug off any cuts to education spending in Britain. Times, Sunday Times
- Rotherham is hoping to shrug off its unenviable title of the car crime capital of South Yorkshire with a new crackdown that aims to slash vehicle crime by a fifth.
- A conviction for corrupting judges on a grand scale would be more difficult to shrug off.
- I admire the way she is able to shrug off unfair criticism.
- The city is trying to shrug off its industrial image and promote itself as a tourist centre.
- We need to shrug off this image that inventing is about eccentric people locked away in sheds. The Sun
- And I can even shrug off the unjustifiable accuse the university education of the unemployment rate.
- You tend to thrive on your own and shrug off most affection.
- I admire the way she is able to shrug off unfair criticism.
