Scorn
[skɔːn] or [skɔrn]
Definition
(n.) Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.
(n.) An act or expression of extreme contempt.
(n.) An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision.
(n.) To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain.
(n.) To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride.
(v. i.) To scoff; to mock; to show contumely, derision, or reproach; to act disdainfully.
Editor: William
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Contemn, despise, disdain, scout, slight, hold in contempt.
v. n. Disdain.
n. Contempt, disdain, derision, mockery, slight, sneer.
Checker: Polly
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Contemn, despise, slight, disdain, disregard, sibilate, vilipend, spurn, scout
ANT:Honor, regard, esteem, venerate, respect, applaud, salute
SYN:Mockery, disdain, contempt, sneer, slight, opprobrium,[See LEARNING]
Inputed by Dan
Definition
n. disdain caused by a mean opinion of anything: extreme contempt: object of contempt.—v.t. to hold in extreme contempt: to disdain: to make a mock of.—v.i. to scoff: to jeer.—n. Scor′ner one who scorns: (B.) one who scoffs at religion: a scoffer.—adj. Scorn′ful full of scorn: contemptuous: disdainful.—adv. Scorn′fully.—ns. Scorn′fulness; Scor′ning.—Laugh to scorn (B.) to deride; Think scorn to disdain or despise.
Edited by Ben
Examples
- Bois-Guilbert made an effort to suppress his rising scorn and indignation, the expression of which, he was well aware, would have little availed him. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I don't think you need be afraid of that, replied Helena, with great scorn; Andros is not likely to rule Melnos. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Mademoiselle Hortense eyes him with a scowl upon her tight face, which gradually changes into a smile of scorn, You are very mysterieuse. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Beggin' your pardon, Sir,' replied Mrs. Cluppins, in a majestic manner, 'I would scorn the haction. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Now, indeed, Martin allowed himself a refreshing laugh of scorn. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She had enveloped both Will and Rosamond in her burning scorn, and it seemed to her as if Rosamond were burned out of her sight forever. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- His heart tingled with the pleasing conviction that these gross eulogiums shamed Moore deeply, and made him half scorn himself and his work. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The reddleman lived like a gipsy; but gipsies he scorned. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- And she worked there one day, as we have described, to show how perfectly she scorned the threat. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Yes; I feel now that I was right when I adhered to principle and law, and scorned and crushed the insane promptings of a frenzied moment. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- We scorned to consider sunsets. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They would have scorned to speak of what they had to bear to any one who might, from his position, have understood it without their words. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- You know your castle wouldn't be perfect without, said blunt Jo, who had no tender fancies yet, and rather scorned romance, except in books. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Recollect how you rather scorned my description of it one evening in Harley Street: a village in a tale. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I shall have to console myself with scorning my own folly. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He whose prisoner thou art scorns to take mean revenge for what is paSt. But beware of the future, lest a worse thing befall thee. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Restore them to thy master; or, if he scorns to accept them, retain them, good friend, for thine own use. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- She cannot feign; she scorns hypocrisy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But above all, an oyster does not take any interest in scenery--he scorns it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Typist: Sean