Synonyms for shrug
ʃrʌgshrug

Princeton's WordNet

1. shrugverb

   a gesture involving the shoulders

2. shrugverb

   raise one's shoulders to indicate indifference or resignation

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1. • Gesture

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1. List of paraphrases for "shrug":

   shrink

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1. Tom Porcelli:

   For even those folks that have been doubters about it, this has to pull them to the other side in terms of that conversation, one number in and of itself will not dictate if a hike happens or not, but a number like this is hard to shrug off.

2. Colin Moore:

   It's not as if people in Hawaii have a clear idea of what Tulsi Gabbard wants, everyone greets it with the same shoulder shrug. We don't know.

3. The Democrats:

   You walk up and down this street and ask every person whether they cared or worried about Russia and connections to Dana Rohrabacher, they'd shrug their shoulders.

4. Radha Stirling:

   There is no doubt that the UAE has detained people on behalf of foreign governments with whom they are allied, i don’t think they would at all shrug their shoulders to a request from such a powerful ally.

5. James Comey:

   My reaction to it is actually disturbing to me, which is kind of,' Eh, there he goes again.' I thought I was' Lyin' James Comey' now I'm' Leakin' James Comey'. But I kind of shrug and sometimes smile and laugh about it and then I have a secondary reaction, which is to be horrified at my own numb reaction, we have to remind ourselves the President of the United States of America is publicly announcing that people are committing crimes, that they should be in jail.