scorn
noun
open or unqualified contempt; disdain.
had scorned
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past perfectof scorn.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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She dies operatically on stage in front of the hometown folks who had scorned her back when.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2015
And here was India, the unaligned, seeking and receiving help from the Western powers it had scorned.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week Philadelphia's blond-mopped maestro tried a new move, exalting the engineers whom once he had scorned.
From Time Magazine Archive
But within hours, investigators and lawmakers on Capitol Hill had scorned the bank, and the company canceled.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her older sisters had scorned their father by seizing control after he was forced to flee Alexandria.
From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby
