scorn

IPA: skˈɔrn

(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.

Examples of "scorn" in Sentences

Sometimes scorn, and the expression of scorn, is warranted.
That will earn you a rebuke from Sarcastro, whose scorn is rightly to be laughed at feared.
My scorn is for policies that are demonstrably illiberal, whatever their proponents tout them to be.
Desiderius: My scorn is for policies that are demonstrably illiberal, whatever their proponents tout them tobe.
Grayson is a freshman congressman who has drawn scorn from the GOP and has quickly built a nationwide following of progressives.
In spite of what he called his scorn of vulgar prejudices, he felt a thrill of strange emotion as he looked on these once familiar objects.
Not quite six feet tall, he had probably been handsome until something ugly inside reached maximum levels and seeped out, eroding him until only an expression of scorn remained.
That effeminate creature in the 7-11 you scorn is suffering the consequences of other mens sins, you only lower yourself if you abuse that person because of your own false perceptions.