noun

• The practice of ignoring one's companion or companions in order to pay attention to one's phone or other mobile device.

  More example sentences

  • ‘phubbing is just one symptom of our increasing reliance on mobile phones and the internet’
  • ‘I'm not guilty of phubbing, but it's a very important topic to discuss.’
  • ‘Even if any of these initiatives help to reduce phubbing, there's a serious challenge on the way—smartwatches.’
  • ‘According to survey results, 46.3 percent of respondents said they'd experienced phubbing at the hands of their significant other.’
  • ‘When someone else is ignoring you to be on their phone, the temptation is to take out your own phone; this won't solve the problem, and may even end with them accusing you of phubbing.’
  • ‘You don't have to stage an intervention, but the next time you catch them phubbing you, say gently but firmly: I'd really prefer if we could put our phones away when we're spending time together.’
  • ‘I have a patient who resorts to phubbing to hurt his wife.’
  • ‘Phubbing is rife throughout the world.’
  • ‘While phubbing most definitely has social consequences, it also has a significant environmental impact as smartphones consume far more energy than most of us think.’
  • ‘It doesn't address the thorny issue of politely informing him that phubbing is obnoxious.’
  • ‘The top bad tech habit in the UK was found to be phubbing.’