scorn
IPA: skˈɔrn
noun
- (uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
- (countable) A display of disdain; a slight.
- (countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
verb
- (transitive) To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
- (transitive) To reject, turn down.
- (transitive) To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
- (intransitive) To scoff, to express contempt.
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Examples of "scorn" in Sentences
- She is openly scornful of him.
- I scorn your piddling incivilities.
- They scorned the idea of the independence.
- Plenty of people feel the scorn is justified.
- Cerealis instructed the others not to be scornful.
- It's the rich people who are the subject of scorn.
- He is also frequently scornful of caravaners and cyclists.
- Ferdinando rejected the proposition with scorn and indignation.
- The newspaper is the source of the statement, not the source of the scorn.
- The men scorn the domestic sphere, even kicking some of the items in contempt.
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