What's the difference between snub and snug?

Snub


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To sob with convulsions.
  • (v. t.) To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop.
  • (v. t.) To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check.
  • (v. t.) To treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly.
  • (n.) A knot; a protuberance; a song.
  • (n.) A check or rebuke; an intended slight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest No shake: Donald Trump snubs Angela Merkel during photo op The piece of pantomime was in stark contrast to the visit of Theresa May in January.
  • (2) Some observers believed the story was planted by Netanyahu aides in order to show the president in a poor light for snubbing the leader of one of America's closest allies.
  • (3) That followed Pyongyang's snubbing of Beijing's wishes when it conducted a missile test in late 2012, followed by the underground detonation of a nuclear device last spring.
  • (4) "I didn't come here to apologise," Bush told world leaders in a defiant seven-minute speech, even as the IPS daily conference newspaper Terra Viva led off with the story in an arresting headline: "US President Snubs His Nose at Rest of the World."
  • (5) His critics have variously attacked him for not bowing low enough at the cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday , appearing not to sing the national anthem at a service and “snubbing” the Rugby World Cup opening ceremony by turning down an invitation to attend.
  • (6) That spirit of co-operation represents a drastic change from the calamitous Copenhagen climate summit in 2009, when diplomatic snubs and general distrust between the two countries wrecked any prospect for a deal.
  • (7) Speaking at a graduation ceremony for international students, Erdoğan finally broke his silence after voters snubbed his plans to change the constitution in order to extend his grip on power.
  • (8) Ukraine winger Yevhen Konoplyanka has insisted he has no regrets over snubbing the Premier League in favour of a move to Sevilla this summer, describing La Liga as the best in the world.
  • (9) It was supposed to be a small snub to the group and the Conservative party,” he says.
  • (10) Swedish frustration with Saudis over speech may jeopardise arms agreement Read more The snub was compounded when Arab League foreign ministers backed the Saudis and expressed “condemnation and astonishment” at her planned remarks, which were “incompatible with the fact that the constitution of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia is based on sharia [law]”.
  • (11) Postwar, the Mosleys set up Euphorion Books to publish his anathemised writing, although printers snubbed them.
  • (12) At the time it was a relatively new medium, snubbed by some of his contemporaries as crassly commercial and distorting of reality.
  • (13) But although last week's reporting suggested that a huge number of stay-at-home mothers are "betrayed" by the government's snub to the 1950s family, the ratio of working to SAH mothers means the great majority of working parents will be more preoccupied with its continued failure to help ordinary families pay for some of the most costly childcare in Europe.
  • (14) Earlier this month, the Tories announced they had hired M&C Saatchi to work alongside Euro RSCG, in a move that was widely interpreted as a snub to their original agency.
  • (15) Washington Wizards break .500 If there has been any sort of major All-Star snub it might be that the Washington Wizards' John Wall deserved to be among the Eastern Conference All-Star starters over Kyrie Irving of the Cleveland Cavaliers .
  • (16) True, as we were reminded last week, members of the EDL have miraculously survived all such conditioning; equally, these extremists now risk being righteously snubbed in Mens' Socks.
  • (17) Regardless, with all the signs of maturity MLS has shown, the All-Star "snub" may be the most logical.
  • (18) 5 February 2009 : Sri Lanka snubs the international community's call for a ceasefire, saying troops will not suspend their offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels.
  • (19) November 8, 2015 Grenville Wilson (@GBHeritage) Corbyn's bow at the Cenotaph was virtually nonexistent, more of a twitch, obviously a deliberate snub November 8, 2015 Others were quick to claim that the rightwing media and Conservative supporters had leaped on the footage to politicise the Remembrance Sunday service.
  • (20) However, activists say the deteriorating human rights situation under president Xi Jinping means the IOC should snub China’s bid for the event, to be held in February and March 2022.

Snug


Definition:

  • (superl.) Close and warm; as, an infant lies snug.
  • (superl.) Close; concealed; not exposed to notice.
  • (superl.) Compact, convenient, and comfortable; as, a snug farm, house, or property.
  • (n.) Same as Lug, n., 3.
  • (v. i.) To lie close; to snuggle; to snudge; -- often with up, or together; as, a child snugs up to its mother.
  • (v. t.) To place snugly.
  • (v. t.) To rub, as twine or rope, so as to make it smooth and improve the finish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If you make a small diagonal snip in each corner of the paper, it will help fit the paper snugly into the corners of the tin.
  • (2) The backpack was held snugly in place by shoulder and body straps.
  • (3) They protect against (most) rain, and keep your toes snug.
  • (4) The netropsin molecule displaces the spine of hydration and fits snugly within the minor groove in the A-A-T-T center.
  • (5) This excellent 19th-century boozer has private mahogany snugs, with etched-glass partitions, so you can hide from the shoppers and enjoy a quiet pint (or cheeky gin, a house speciality).
  • (6) Discovery of antiviral agents of this type will, therefore, depend on designing compounds that can enter and fit snugly into the hydrophobic pocket of a particular viral capsid protein.
  • (7) Only gut, polyglycolic acid, and polydioxanone granny knots were as secure as square knots; no loosely tied (500 g tension) asymmetric square knots were as secure as snug square knots, and only polydioxanone and polypropylene loose square knots were as secure as snug square knots.
  • (8) The fryingpan should be large enough to hold the pork and rhubarb fairly snugly.
  • (9) The fibrous and lipomatous tissue snugly surrounds the fascicles and cannot be separated from them without damaging them, even if the finest microsurgical techniques are used.
  • (10) In these a portion of the superior surface of S1 is removed in such a way that the body of S1 fits snugly against the under surface of the repositioned body of L5.
  • (11) The buttons are more flush against its surface, the twin sticks fit more snugly against the player's thumbs and both the shoulder buttons and the D-pad respond to the slightest pressure.
  • (12) The wheels on our bikes had barely stopped turning by the time we'd drained the first pint of Guinness in front of a log fire in one of its many snug alcoves.
  • (13) Certainly, many of his acting projects fit snugly with his social views, if not overtly.
  • (14) The anticodon stem is extended by two non-Watson-Crick base pairs, leaving the three anti-codon bases unpaired and splayed out to bind snugly into three separate complementary pockets in the protein.
  • (15) In fact, he's more like the sort of fellow you'd find in the snug of a West Country pub.
  • (16) Each helmet is designed to fit snugly against the prominent aspects of the infants' cranium and to be loose fitting where the head is shallow.
  • (17) "There's a lady in the snug who wants to give you a thousand pounds."
  • (18) He liked Somerset because it was "less cleaned-up" than the home counties: as Whitfield writes, he had a hatred for "English gentility … 'snug cottages with roses around the door'".
  • (19) He shows me a large, hard, hollow ball of mud with a snug entrance hole carved into it.
  • (20) A small hole is drilled in the distal shaft to allow the placement of a spiral wire, allowing a snug fit even in older, well used electrosurgical handles.