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-noun 1. open or unqualified contempt; disdain: His face and attitude showed the scorn he felt. 2. an object of derision or contempt. 3. a derisive or contemptuous action or speech. -verb (used with object) 4. to treat or regard with contempt or disdain: They scorned the old beggar. 5. to reject, refuse, or ignore with contempt or disdain: She scorned my help.

  • scorned compromise.
  • Be careful about pouring scorn on someone's pet project.
  • She reserves particular scorn for shopping for clothes or shoes.
  • scorn on the idea that consuming dairy could be bad for health.
  • Anyone who takes the mind seriously in its own terms is often scorned for believing there is a ghost in the machine.
  • However, to heap scorn upon the Welsh side is to rob the noble England squad of the credit due to them.
  • scorn to take advantage of such a squirrel.
  • scorn the very idea of exam revision.
  • Boris was right to go and expose himself to their withering scorn.
  • Rivalry brings deceitful disguises, mistaken identities and scorn - so much scorn.
  • Derrida's words in The Post Card also perhaps generate in most readers the passions of disbelief and even scorn.
  • And let no women scorn other women, for they might well be better than they.
  • The latter path was championed by the nationalistic Slavophiles, who heaped scorn on the " decadent " West.
  • She had great scorn for the notion that one should be able to laugh at oneself.
  • There will never be the girl made that would not scorn you.
  • scorn a man so drunk that he spouts nonsense and attracts a crowd around him.
  • Other political parties have had similar experiences, yet don't attract the scorn of Ruth et al.
  • Utterly scorning the democratic process, She saw off parliamentary candidates wholesale.
  • She had great scorn for the notion that one should be able to laugh at oneself.
  • He cast scorn on the total prohibition of divorce and the idea of an indissoluble marriage bond.
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