Sentence example with the word 'scorn'

scorn

abhor, contemn, despise, disparagement, flouting, ignore, make fun of, rebuff, set at defiance, sniff at, spurn

Definition n. lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike

Last update: August 5, 2015


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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. (George Bernard Shaw)   [verb]

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I didn't want to berate him, or pour scorn on his failures.   [verb]

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She scorned for his proposal to marry him.   [Please select]

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She scorned the efforts of ameteur singers.   [Please select]

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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. (George Bernard Shaw)   [Please select]

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Be careful about pouring scorn on someone 's pet project.   [Please select]

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All of them, for whatever reason, poured scorn on the idea that consuming dairy could be bad for health.   [Please select]

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Uncas enjoyed his victory, but was content with merely exhibiting his triumph by a quiet smile--an emblem of scorn which belongs to all time and every nation.   [Please select]

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You scorn to mingle the blood of the Heywards with one so degraded--lovely and virtuous though she be.   [Please select]

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They have sunk their richest argosies at Barking Creek to block the river; but the Dutch break chains, ride over sunken ships, laugh our petty defences to scorn.   [Please select]

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Was Fareham, who openly scorned the royal debauchee, was he any better than the King.   [Please select]

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She scorned the protection of his love.   [Please select]

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Her sister met her remonstrances with scorn.   [Please select]

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