Careful Words

spurned (adj.)

His golden locks time hath to silver turned;

O time too swift! Oh swiftness never ceasing!

His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurned,

But spurned in vain; youth waneth by encreasing.

George Peele (1552-1598): Sonnet. Polyhymnia.

Spurn'd by the young, but hugg'd by the old

To the very verge of the churchyard mould.

Thomas Hood (1798-1845): Her Moral.