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scorn
/ skɔːn /
noun
- open contempt or disdain for a person or thing; derision
- an object of contempt or derision
- archaic.an act or expression signifying contempt
verb
- to treat with contempt or derision
- tr to reject with contempt
Derived Forms
- ˈscornfully, adverb
- ˈscornfulness, noun
- ˈscornful, adjective
- ˈscorner, noun
Other Words From
- scorn·er noun
- scorn·ing·ly adverb
- out·scorn verb (used with object)
- self-scorn noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of scorn1
Word History and Origins
Origin of scorn1
Idioms and Phrases
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
That Microsoft was about to stop supporting a PC it is currently selling and for which it controls everything from the firmware to the drivers earned the company some well-deserved scorn from users and the press.
In the theater, there was a kind of scorn, if I may say, for sitcoms.
Younger generations typically don’t approach fast food with the same amount of scorn, and sandwich releases now come with celebrity endorsements and the same level of anticipation as sneaker drops.
The outsize power of celebrity billionaires and influencers to steer the market has drawn scorn from committed investors and from regulators worried about manipulation.
Plus, social media scorn also takes place after the fact—when harm to the animal has already been done.
Ricky Gervais, the sultan of scorn, uttered that cheeky bit while emceeing the Golden Globes ceremony a few years back.
Hanauer has been making the same case for years, drawing heaps of both praise and scorn.
Heap praise, not scorn, on physicians who are brave and caring enough to recommend cannabis when appropriate.
Nutrition nannies scorn hot dogs, but there are plenty of happy eaters who adore them.
This idea fell out of favor in the last century—and was looked on with scorn as “unscientific.”
Then she put her anger from her; put from her, too, the insolence and scorn with which so lavishly she had addressed him hitherto.
But scorn is far more volcanic than glacial and a poor barrier between sex and judgment.
"Mr. Capt don't demean himself to chambermaids, Miss Lucy," retorted the abigail with angry scorn.
For all his vaunted scorn of being a butcher at a price, now that he heard the price he seemed not half so scornful.
His face was ash-coloured and his black eyebrows quivered as though the blaze of her scorn had blinded him.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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