Shunned vs Ostracized - What's the difference?
shunned | ostracized |
(shun)
To avoid, especially persistently.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
, title= To escape (a threatening evil, an unwelcome task etc).
To screen, hide.
To shove, push.
As verbs the difference between shunned and ostracized
is that shunned is past tense of shun while ostracized is past tense of ostracize.As an adjective ostracized is
blackballed. {{gloss-stub|en|blackball says 'to ostracize'}.shunned
English
Verb
(head)shun
English
Verb
(shunn)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}