in the sentence, Sometimes all she got was a shrug. does a shrug mean neglect? Dorry peeled the waxed paper off her peanut-butter-and-cheese sandwich. It used to be her favorite sandwich, but now it tasted like sadness, like tears held back because she was too proud to cry in front of people she didn’t know. The first few weeks she’d gone around like some robot with a one-message computer chip: “Hi. I’m Dorry Stevens. I’m new.” She had grinned enthusiastically with every greeting, so much that her smile muscles ached by the end of each day. Usually kids said “Hi,” and then turned back to their friends. Sometimes all she got was a in the sentence, Sometimes all she got was a shrug. does a shrug mean neglect?