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What is another word for turning a deaf ear?

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Verb
Present participle for to disregard, discount or overlook inconsiderately
sneezing at
disregarding
discounting
overlooking
slighting
snubbing
blinking at
brushing aside
brushing away
brushing off
having no use for
laughing off
letting pass
looking the other way
passing over
paying no attention to
paying no heed to
paying no mind
shutting eyes to
taking lightly
taking no notice of
turning a blind eye
ignoring
forgetting
neglecting
omitting
dismissing
overpassing
shrugging off
bypassing
pardoning
whitewashing
excusing
remitting
forgiving
slurring over
contemning
unheeding
turning a deaf ear to
glozing over
turning a blind eye to
winking at
setting aside
letting go
leaving out of account
sending to Coventry
glossing over
tuning out
not listening
conniving
writing off
missing
letting off easy
making light of
unminding
cold-shouldering
living with
taking no account of
papering over
leaving be
condoning
rejecting
deliberately ignoring
closing your eyes to
minimizingUS
pooh-poohing
minimisingUK
conniving at
flouting
spurning
sparing
skipping
misheeding
discarding
avoiding
pushing aside
turning back on
paying no mind to
taking no notice
making allowances for
letting something ride
playing down
letting someone off with
wiping slate clean
evading
refusing to acknowledge
turning your back on
letting something slide
winking
dissimulating
sweeping under the rug
varnishing over
sweeping under the carpet
downplaying
soft-pedalling
soft-pedaling
treating lightly
shaking off
de-emphasizing
dealing rapidly with
treating as unimportant
disbelieving
palliating
dispelling
underselling
giving no credence to
doubting
taking with a pinch of salt
laying aside
indulging
tolerating
discharging
deodorizingUS
pleading ignorance
deodorisingUK
letting off
granting amnesty
granting a pardon to
suspending charges
giving absolution
burying the hatchet
sinking
burying
taking
stomaching
swimming with the tide
turning blind eye to
grinning and bear it
playing past
letting bygones be bygones
putting up with
bearing with
standing for
going along with
looking past
rolling with punches
abandoning
shirking
forsaking
deserting
deferring
pretermitting
leaving something undone
scanting
losing sight of
failing to care for
postponing
failing to look after
paying little attention to
trifling with
leaving alone
failing to provide for
depreciating
having nothing to do with
keeping at arm's length
underestimating
skimping on
not caring for
thinking little of
procrastinating over
not troubling oneself
overleaping
procrastinating
keeping your distance
throwing to the winds
eliding
passing up
not caring
scorning
disdaining
belittling
trivializingUS
defying
disparaging
despising
having no time for
sweeping aside
scoffing at
forgetting about
trivialisingUK
thinking no more of
waving aside
putting aside
disrespecting
disesteeming
vilipending
failing
disobeying
disfavouring
disfavoring
having contempt for
dispensing with
excluding
turning deaf ear
turning blind eye
failing to notice
looking through
not taking into account
burying one's head in sand
letting it go
“But the banking industry is apparently turning a deaf ear to the central bank's call as bank lending still stood high at around 17 percent to 18 percent.”
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