scorn
open or unqualified contempt; disdain: His face and attitude showed the scorn he felt.
an object of derision or contempt.
a derisive or contemptuous action or speech.
to treat or regard with contempt or disdain: They scorned the old beggar.
to reject, refuse, or ignore with contempt or disdain: She scorned my help.
to mock; jeer.
Idioms about scorn
laugh to scorn, to ridicule; deride: Many of his sophisticated listeners laughed him to scorn.
Origin of scorn
1synonym study For scorn
Other words for scorn
Opposites for scorn
Other words from scorn
- scorn·er, noun
- scorn·ing·ly, adverb
- out·scorn, verb (used with object)
- self-scorn, noun
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How to use scorn in a sentence
Rosie, 17, scorns her mother because of her addiction, yet blithely dabbles in booze, drugs, and sex.
She belonged to that ultra-modern school which scorns to sue masculine admiration, but which cannot dispense with it nevertheless.
Dope | Sax RohmerOr was it rather the noble error of one, who, with his mind fixed on the highest, scorns the high?
The Life of Mazzini | Bolton KingBut a young man once climbed up there to carve his name above Washington's, an act of presumption for which every one scorns him.
The Story of the Thirteen Colonies | H. A. (Hlne Adeline) GuerberNature, fresh from the hand of Deity, scorns the too prying gaze and the too shallow judgment of finite but presumptuous man.
The Sea | Jules Michelet
I would strive a little to show myself in my place; a gentleman-usher scorns to use the phrase and fancy of a serving-man.
British Dictionary definitions for scorn
/ (skɔːn) /
open contempt or disdain for a person or thing; derision
an object of contempt or derision
archaic an act or expression signifying contempt
to treat with contempt or derision
(tr) to reject with contempt
Origin of scorn
1Derived forms of scorn
- scorner, noun
- scornful, adjective
- scornfully, adverb
- scornfulness, noun
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