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shrugged ADJ

shrug <a shrug; shrugs> N

shrug off

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shrug one's shoulders VB

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She shrugged off the chauvinism she found round every corner, and resisted all prying male attempts to find out about her love-life.
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Not intimidated by the front-office brass, he also shrugged off the old-timers who would have much preferred a three-piece-suited, cigared, potbellied producer.
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Accusers were shrugged off by his legal team, who called the women gold-diggers and worse.
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She shrugged and blew out a lungful of smoke into the afternoon sunlight.
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The question was always shrugged off as one for the never-never.
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It is a question that was generally shrugged off, or totally unasked, for decades.
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It is a right to see reality differently once superficiality has been shrugged off.
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He could easily have been on the marine scrapheap but, in typical fashion, he shrugged that off, got back into the water and into business.
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He grinned and shrugged through the evening which steadily became less about grouting on tiles and more about grating on nerves.
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Politicians, presented with noisy statistics, shrugged, said there is too much doubt among scientists, and did nothing.
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