snubbing

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of snub

noun

1. The act by which someone is snubbed; a rebuke.

   “After many skirmishes and snubbings, the ambitious pair were considered effectually quenched and went about with forlorn faces, which were rather belied by explosions of laughter when the two got together.”