have scorned
- present perfect of scorn.
Example Sentences
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The source of the Holy Fire has been a closely guarded secret for centuries, and highbrow skeptics going back to the Middle Ages have scorned it as a carnival trick for the masses.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2022
“The fact that critics have scorned it and the museum won’t even light it,” he said.
From The New Yorker ● May 8, 2019
Off-campus, many have scorned those protesting the invitation.
From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2018
And then there’s Post Malone, the viral hitmaker who seems like precisely the type of act that Goldenvoice’s mastermind, Paul Tollett, would once have scorned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2018
Modern stone-tool-making peoples, such as Yali’s great-grandparents, would have scorned the stone tools of half a million years ago as very crude.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
