Snub Sentence Examples

I was a little puzzled to start with, then I felt deeply hurt by the obvious snub.

Even the once acerbic press deplored the ' FA's final snub ' .

The university was not likely to take a snub like that lying down.

This would be a huge snub, a huge insult to the host, at any time, and in any culture.

They see it as a real snub to be overlooked for the category.

On the Scottish King 's arrival at Gloucester, William delivered a snub by refusing to receive him.

This results in a snub to the earthly beauty Guinevere, and the hero spends the rest of his days attempting to recapture the unattainable beauty of his fairy love.

While discussing noses, he says that those with thick bulbous ends belong to persons who are insensitive, swinish; sharp-tipped belong to the irascible, those easily provoked, like dogs; rounded, large, obtuse noses to the magnanimous, the lion-like; slender hooked noses to the eagle-like, the noble but grasping; round-tipped retrousse noses to the luxurious, like barndoor fowl; noses with a very slight notch at the root belong to the impudent, the crow-like; while snub noses belong to persons of luxurious habits, whom he compares to deer; open nostrils are signs of passion, &c.

It was an insult to Napoleon III and also was a diplomatic snub; Napoleon wanted revenge.

The "small stellated dodecahedron," the "great dodecahedron" and the "great stellated dodecahedron" are Kepler-Poinsot solids; and the "truncated" and "snub dodecahedra" are Archimedean solids (see Polyhedron).

The paper 's shot of Tara 's face in September 2004 showed a neat snub nose with a straight bridge.

Nicky Hilton brushed the snub off by saying that she and Paris are too busy to attend a silly old wedding anyway.

He was short of stature, swarthy and broadchested, with a large head which early turned grey, snub nose and deep-set eyes.

The snub dodecahedron is a 92-faced solid having 4 triangles and a pentagon at each corner.

Even the once acerbic press deplored the ' FA 's final snub '.

The safety of the dogs and musher was paramount and the safety briefings would cover the use of snub lines onto the vehicles bumpers.

Vetch Field chiefs are fuming about Sam Hammam 's intention to snub the competition from next season.

Despite the Emmy snub, Longoria was nominated in 2005 for a Golden Globe award.

He citied the treatment of Native Americans in the movie industry as the reason for his snub.

The snub cube is a 38-faced solid having at each corner 4 triangles and I square; 6 faces belong to a cube, 8 to the coaxial octahedron, and the remaining 24 to no regular solid.

They do not have a tail fin and cannot really be mistaken for anything else, if only because of their short snub snout.

On the Scottish King's arrival at Gloucester, William delivered a snub by refusing to receive him.

Currency overlay now a source of alpha for investors Pension funds do not snub currency overlay anymore.

In art he generally appears as a little pot-bellied old man, with a snub nose and a bald head, riding on an ass and supported by satyrs; or he is depicted lying asleep on his wine-skin, which he sometimes bestrides.

His neighbor on the other side, who lay motionless some distance from him with his head thrown back, was a young soldier with a snub nose.