The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SNUB , but the solution may also be SILENTTREATMENT which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).
Cold-shoulder crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SNUB | 38 % | 4 |
| SHUN | 34 % | 4 |
| SPURN | 9 % | 5 |
| SCORN | 6 % | 5 |
| SILENTTREATMENT | 5 % | 15 |
| SLIGHT | 5 % | 6 |
| IGNORE | 3 % | 6 |
Why may SILENTTREATMENT be the right solution?
The phrase "cold shoulder" means to intentionally ignore or snub someone. "Silent treatment" is another phrase that means the same thing, making it the correct answer.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Cold-shoulder
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- snub
- cut
- cold hearted
- coldhearted
- coldness
- cold fish
- silent treatment
- cold weather
- rejection
- cold blood
- cold comfort
- affectionless
Crossword Answer definitions
SNUB noun- A deliberate affront or slight.
- A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
- A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
- To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
- To turn down; to dismiss.
- To check; to reprimand.
- To stub out (a cigarette etc).
- To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
- To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
- Conspicuously short.
- Of the nose: flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.
- (of a polyhedron) Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
- To sob with convulsions.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SNUB
- Rebuff
- Leave off the nominations
- Oscar ___ (the Academy's choice not to nominate a critically acclaimed work)
- Turn one's nose up
- Un-invite, maybe
- Slight
- Social insult
- Ignore contemptuously
- Affront
- High-hat
More clues leading to the result SHUN
- Avoid
- Deliberately avoid
- Keep away from
- Eschew
- Steer clear of
- Scrupulously avoid
- Blackball
- Treat with disdain, in a way
- Give the cold shoulder
- Cold-shoulder
More clues leading to the result SPURN
- Give the cold-shoulder
- Look down on
- Reject disdainfully
- Reject with scorn
- Turn a cold shoulder to
- Brush aside
- Reject roughly
- Blow off
- Cold-shoulder
- Give the cold shoulder to
More clues leading to the result SCORN
- Disdain
- Mock
- Treat with contempt
- Diss
- Contemptuously refuse
- Belittle in a way
- Derision
- Distain
- Show disdain for
- Pooh-pooh
More clues leading to the result SILENTTREATMENT
- Quiet rebuke
- Pouting, say
- Cold shoulder
- Passive-aggressive tactic
- Passive disapproval
- Shunning tactic
- It freezes you out
- The cold shoulder
- Passive-aggressive response
- Passive-aggressive behavior