Scorn
noun
A feeling or expression of strong dislike or disrespect.
The idea was met with scorn by many critics at the panel.
Often appears as...
- meet with scorn
- pour scorn on
verb
To show or feel contempt or derision for something or someone.
He scorned the new culture of celebrity journalism.
Often appears as...
- scorn at
- scorn for
noun
An object of extreme disdain or contempt.
He became the scorn of his colleagues for betraying the team.
Often appears as...
- the scorn of
- be someone's scorn
verb
To reject or refuse with contempt.
She scorned his proposal of marriage.
Often appears as...
- scorn to take
- scorn to accept
noun
A feeling or expression of strong dislike or disrespect.
The idea was met with scorn by many critics at the panel.
Often appears as...
- meet with scorn
- pour scorn on
verb
To show or feel contempt or derision for something or someone.
He scorned the new culture of celebrity journalism.
Often appears as...
- scorn at
- scorn for
noun
An object of extreme disdain or contempt.
He became the scorn of his colleagues for betraying the team.
Often appears as...
- the scorn of
- be someone's scorn
verb
To reject or refuse with contempt.
She scorned his proposal of marriage.
Often appears as...
- scorn to take
- scorn to accept
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Strong Dislike
Use 'scorn' for severe feelings, more intense than just not liking someone or something.
His constant scorn for compromise has made him few friends in politics.
Pro Tip 2/3Public Expression
'Scorn' often implies expressing one's disdain openly, not just feeling it internally.
She laughed in scorn when they suggested she was not qualified.
Pro Tip 3/3Literary Use
In literature, 'scorn' is used to create drama between characters.
In his plays, Shakespeare often portrayed scorn between feuding families.
Pro Tip 1/3Strong Dislike
Use 'scorn' for severe feelings, more intense than just not liking someone or something.
His constant scorn for compromise has made him few friends in politics.
Pro Tip 2/3Public Expression
'Scorn' often implies expressing one's disdain openly, not just feeling it internally.
She laughed in scorn when they suggested she was not qualified.
Pro Tip 3/3Literary Use
In literature, 'scorn' is used to create drama between characters.
In his plays, Shakespeare often portrayed scorn between feuding families.
Pro Tip 1/3Strong Dislike
Use 'scorn' for severe feelings, more intense than just not liking someone or something.
His constant scorn for compromise has made him few friends in politics.
Pro Tip 2/3Public Expression
'Scorn' often implies expressing one's disdain openly, not just feeling it internally.
She laughed in scorn when they suggested she was not qualified.
Pro Tip 3/3Literary Use
In literature, 'scorn' is used to create drama between characters.
In his plays, Shakespeare often portrayed scorn between feuding families.
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Connecting all the dots...
peace and this amazing world we live in today and every weekend I'd come back and talk to my rock and I would you send to my yoga practice and everything like that and I was searching and then in seven weeks my rock disappeared I got very upset and I scorned the beach everywhere looking for
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Geoff Mulgan:...
and schools for social entrepreneurs. And he ended his life selling companies to venture capitalists. He believed if you see a problem, you shouldn't tell someone to act, you should act on it yourself, and he lived long enough and saw enough of his ideas first scorned and then succeed
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What I discovered in New...
or you're drinking coffee in their diner, and they will come and scorn you, and tell you that they don't want you anywhere near them. I find the stigma especially ironic, because I strongly believe that sanitation workers are the most important labor force
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I grew up in the...
we have to make the case for it. My friends on Twitter didn't abandon their beliefs or their principles -- only their scorn. They channeled their infinitely justifiable offense and came to me with pointed questions tempered with kindness and humor.
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Jared Diamond: How...
in how to run a human society. They constitute experiments from which we ourselves may be able to learn. Tribal societies shouldn't be scorned as primitive and miserable, but also they shouldn't be romanticized as happy and peaceful.
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Jared Diamond: Lessons...
high value on work so all the people who are no longer working on respected another reason is our American emphasis on the virtues of self-reliance and independence so that we instinctively scorn all the people who are no longer
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Dinosaurs: The Facts and...
these models were already looked upon with scorn this Megalosaurus for instance ashamed walking on all four legs but we now know he would have been bipedal he would have stood on just his hind legs and his four legs would have
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Why societies collapse PIPE...
a competitive-ranked chiefly society; and their scorn for the Inuit, from whom they refused to learn. So that's how the five-part framework is relevant to the collapse and eventual extinction of the Greenland Norse.
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The electrifying...
She had no experience with the legal system, no money, and no power in the eyes of the court. Ignoring the jury’s scorn, Truth said she was there to fight for custody of her five-year-old son Peter,
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Safari Live - Day 186 PIPE...
hath no fury like the proverbial scorned there for this and so he's probably very wisely keeping a distance from lions and squabbling leopard Isis if I were him I'd be far away from here as possible
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Connecting all the dots...
peace and this amazing world we live in today and every weekend I'd come back and talk to my rock and I would you send to my yoga practice and everything like that and I was searching and then in seven weeks my rock disappeared I got very upset and I scorned the beach everywhere looking for
Video examples
Geoff Mulgan:...
and schools for social entrepreneurs. And he ended his life selling companies to venture capitalists. He believed if you see a problem, you shouldn't tell someone to act, you should act on it yourself, and he lived long enough and saw enough of his ideas first scorned and then succeed
Video examples
What I discovered in New...
or you're drinking coffee in their diner, and they will come and scorn you, and tell you that they don't want you anywhere near them. I find the stigma especially ironic, because I strongly believe that sanitation workers are the most important labor force
Video examples
I grew up in the...
we have to make the case for it. My friends on Twitter didn't abandon their beliefs or their principles -- only their scorn. They channeled their infinitely justifiable offense and came to me with pointed questions tempered with kindness and humor.
Video examples
Jared Diamond: How...
in how to run a human society. They constitute experiments from which we ourselves may be able to learn. Tribal societies shouldn't be scorned as primitive and miserable, but also they shouldn't be romanticized as happy and peaceful.
Video examples
Jared Diamond: Lessons...
high value on work so all the people who are no longer working on respected another reason is our American emphasis on the virtues of self-reliance and independence so that we instinctively scorn all the people who are no longer
Video examples
Dinosaurs: The Facts and...
these models were already looked upon with scorn this Megalosaurus for instance ashamed walking on all four legs but we now know he would have been bipedal he would have stood on just his hind legs and his four legs would have
Video examples
Why societies collapse PIPE...
a competitive-ranked chiefly society; and their scorn for the Inuit, from whom they refused to learn. So that's how the five-part framework is relevant to the collapse and eventual extinction of the Greenland Norse.
Video examples
The electrifying...
She had no experience with the legal system, no money, and no power in the eyes of the court. Ignoring the jury’s scorn, Truth said she was there to fight for custody of her five-year-old son Peter,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 186 PIPE...
hath no fury like the proverbial scorned there for this and so he's probably very wisely keeping a distance from lions and squabbling leopard Isis if I were him I'd be far away from here as possible
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John Podhoretz
American Writer
The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
American Lawyer
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
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Franz Marc
German Artist
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
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Barbara Corcoran
American Businesswoman
The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.
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Laura Marling
English Musician
I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
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Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish Novelist
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
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John C. Bogle
American Businessman
New ideas that fly in the face of conventional wisdom of the day are always greeted with doubt and scorn, even fear.
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John Gay
English Poet
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
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Horace
Roman Poet
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
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Gordon W. Allport
American Psychologist
No corner of the world is free from group scorn.
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John Podhoretz
American Writer
The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.
Quote examples
Robert Green Ingersoll
American Lawyer
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
Quote examples
Franz Marc
German Artist
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
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Barbara Corcoran
American Businesswoman
The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.
Quote examples
Laura Marling
English Musician
I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
Quote examples
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish Novelist
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
Quote examples
John C. Bogle
American Businessman
New ideas that fly in the face of conventional wisdom of the day are always greeted with doubt and scorn, even fear.
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John Gay
English Poet
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
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Horace
Roman Poet
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
Quote examples
Gordon W. Allport
American Psychologist
No corner of the world is free from group scorn.
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