sent to Coventry

A form of send to Coventry — To ostracize, or systematically ignore someone.

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Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of send to Coventry

    Julie, the staff, carrying on like that. … Not speaking to you. They've sent you to Coventry.

    1992, That Creeping Feeling, episode 3x02 of The Brittas Empire
    1 more example

    Now were these indecencies perpetrated by an American critic, that critic would be sent to Coventry by the whole press of the country [...]

    1844, E. A. Poe, Marginalia
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Chicago

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