scorned

American

[skawrnd] / skɔrnd /

adjective

treated or regarded with contempt, scoffing, or disdain.

Few believed he’d find an audience, but with the release of his hit single and video last year, the once scorned act has now become popular with fans and critics.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of scorn.

Other Word Forms

unscorned

adjective

Etymology

Origin of scorned

scorn ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

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There are few things more universally powerful than a mama’s boy scorned.

From Salon • May 10, 2026

In a 1991 interview, retired Chief Justice Warren Burger scorned the view that the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear arms belongs to individuals rather than a collective militia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

However, he has scorned the description of Opendoor as a meme stock, describing it instead as a “cult stock.”

From MarketWatch • Nov. 6, 2025

He hated the government and scorned taxes, which the government noticed.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025

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

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