Read full poem →And then, with an impudence nought could abash,
Shrugged his hump-shoulder, to tell the beholder,
For twenty such knaves he should laugh but the bolder:
Dictionary Entry
To raise (the shoulders) to express uncertainty, lack of concern, (formerly) dread, etc.
In a Sentence
“I asked him for an answer and he just shrugged.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. shruggedoff shruggedagain shruggedshrugged merelyshrugged manshrugged only
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Poetry examples for “shrugged”
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