noun
definition
Contempt or disdain.
definition
A display of disdain; a slight.
definition
An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
verb
definition
To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
definition
To reject, turn down.
example
He scorned her romantic advances.
definition
To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
example
She scorned to show weakness.
definition
To scoff, to express contempt.
Examples of scorn in a Sentence
This scorn was not offensive to his master.
His tactics would never earn anything but scorn from Kris, but they worked.
The good knight is bound to endless fantastic courtesies towards men and still more towards women of a certain rank; he may treat all below that rank with any decree of scorn and cruelty.
The word is of Armenian formation and signifies a son of Paulik or of little Paul; the termination -ik must here have originally expressed scorn and contempt.
No writer shows a juster scorn of all mere rhetoric and exaggeration.
Her blunt manners, her unconcealed scorn of the male favourites that disgraced the court, and perhaps also her sense of unrequited merit, produced an estrangement between her and the empress, which ended in her asking permission to travel abroad.
We laugh to scorn the very idea of exam revision.
The tale goes that the scorn of the daughter of a neighbouring king induced Harald to take a vow not to cut nor comb his hair until he was sole king of Norway, and that ten years later he was justified in trimming it; whereupon he exchanged the epithet "Shockhead" for the one by which he is usually known.
Although a Quaker, he had a polemical spirit; men seeing Whittier only in his saintly age knew little of the fire wherewith, setting aside ambition and even love, he maintained his warfare against the " national crime," employing action, argument and lyric scorn.
But there was only scorn and hatred for unknown arsonists who, many believe, may have started the devastating inferno.
He will treat the scurrilous lampoon with noble scorn, reflecting that such things as these are the penalty of greatness.
However, I think those pouring scorn on this notion will very soon come to feel a little rueful.
And let no women scorn other women, for they might well be better than they.
Be careful about pouring scorn on someone's pet project.
Boris was right to go and expose himself to their withering scorn.
The latter path was championed by the nationalistic Slavophiles, who heaped scorn on the " decadent " West.
She reserves particular scorn for shopping for clothes or shoes.
The boys scorn a man so drunk that he spouts nonsense and attracts a crowd around him.
I love her like she was my daughter, but you said it, a woman's scorn and all that stuff.
Other political parties have had similar experiences, yet don't attract the scorn of Ruth et al.
He cast scorn on the total prohibition of divorce and the idea of an indissoluble marriage bond.
Rivalry brings deceitful disguises, mistaken identities and scorn - so much scorn.
There will never be the girl made that would not scorn you.
Moved only to scorn and indignation by the rhetoric of these presumptuous enthusiasts, Frederick marched into the Leonine city, and took the imperial crown from the hands of Adrian IV.
The generous scorn and pathos of the historian acting on extraordinary gifts of imaginative insight and characterization, and the fierce indignation of the satirist finding its vent in exaggerating realism, doubtless to some extent warped their impressions; nevertheless their works are the last voices expressive of the freedom and manly virtue of the ancient world.
Like Cervantes at times, Mark Twain reveals a depth of melancholy beneath his playful humour, and like Moliere always, he has a deep scorn and a burning detestation of all sorts of sham and pretence, a scorching hatred of humbug and hypocrisy.
Yet they rejected with scorn and derision the pacific overtures of their political opponents, the Potoccy, the Radziwillowie, and the Braniscy, Prince Michal openly declaring that of two tyrannies he preferred the tyranny of the Muscovite to the 2 Michal Kazimierz Radziwill alone was worth thirty millions.
Its doctrinal thesis (which is supported with great philosophic acumen and rhetorical power) is the divinity and consubstantiality of the Word; incidentally the character of Basil, which Eunomius had aspersed, is vindicated, and the heretic himself is held up to scorn and contempt.
Be careful about pouring scorn on someone 's pet project.
But I scorn to take advantage of such a squirrel.
One tool they use to help you save time is a five-star rating system where guitarists can praise the best transcriptions and scorn those that are not so great.
It's relatively "viral" - it's something that a gamer might send to another gamer to share enthusiasm (or scorn) for an upcoming product.
Make sure you can go the distance; if you can't, the only thing you'll win is Scorpio's scorn.
Topping off the World War I Army uniforms was the "field cap," which actually became the object of much scorn to the people back in the states.
Gods, he would live an age with her scorn if it meant she were alive!
All of them, for whatever reason, poured scorn on the idea that consuming dairy could be bad for health.
Derrida's words in The Post Card also perhaps generate in most readers the passions of disbelief and even scorn.
Secondly we have this dialectical " induction as to particulars by grouping of similars whose liability to rebuttal by an exception has been already noted in connexion with the limits of dialectic. This is the incomplete induction by simple enumeration which has so often been laughed to scorn.
Other political parties have had similar experiences, yet do n't attract the scorn of Ruth et al.
Accompanied by much triumphalism, celebration of President Hussein 's greatness, and scorn poured on his enemies.
For the actual conditions of social and political life in his own time he had a fine scorn.
Perhaps it's my past but I am more able to do so without the infliction of scorn and ridicule poured upon the other girls of my profession by the town's less sinful inhabitants.
She had great scorn for the notion that one should be able to laugh at oneself.
Johnson saw with more envy than became so great a man the villa, the plate, the china, the Brussels carpet, which the little mimic had got by repeating, with grimaces and gesticulations, what wiser men had written; and the exquisitely sensitive vanity of Garrick was galled by the thought that, while all the rest of the world was applauding him, he could obtain from one morose cynic, whose opinion it was impossible to despise, scarcely any compliment not acidulated with scorn.
Derrida 's words in The Post Card also perhaps generate in most readers the passions of disbelief and even scorn.
Hence his scorn of the doctrine of the resurrection of the body held then in a very crude form, and his ridicule of any attempt to raise the vulgar masses from their degradation.
Indian family who had been slaveholders for generations, he had a keen love of sport and a genuine sympathy with country-folk, but he had at the same time something of the scorn for lower races to be found in the members of a dominant race.
His politics might therefore have been described as Toryism tempered by sympathy, or as Radicalism tempered by hereditary scorn of subject races.
The word " Induction," which occurs in only three or four passages throughout all his works (and these again minor ones), is never used by him with the faintest reminiscence of the import assigned to it by Bacon; and, as will be seen, he had nothing but scorn for experimental work in physics.
The alliance concluded by him with France reveals him at once as rising superior to the narrow prejudices of his race and faith, which rejected with scorn any union with the unbeliever, and as gifted with sufficient political insight to appreciate the advantage of combining with Francis I.