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Sentence count:121+16Posted:2016-08-11Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: contemncontemptdespisedespitedisdainfreeze offpooh-poohrejectspurnturn downSimilar words: scorearound the cornerhornsubornborn ofscopemorningattorneyMeaning: [skɔrn /skɔːn]  n. 1. lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike 2. open disrespect for a person or thing. v. 1. look down on with disdain 2. reject with contempt. 
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(61) My kids used to scorn my politics as right-wing selfishness.
(62) She heaped her scorn on what became his tentatively offered ideas.
(63) I vacillated between the false potency of scorn and feelings of ineptitude.
(64) The rest of you, choke on this last gobbet of my scorn!
(65) The teachers were very old-fashioned, treating any new ideas with contempt and scorn.
(66) The idea was greeted with laughter and scorn by some of our colleagues.
(67) The Express is a left-leaning paper, full of praise for workers and scorn for the establishment.
(68) It was this last bit that caused the problem, and critics have poured scorn on the advice ever since.
(69) Ireland has plenty of scorn for its leaders, but where is the love?
(70) But Washington last night poured scorn on Mr Chretien's veto claim.
(71) Alice thought: Throwing underhand, pathetic! - and this scorn refuelled her.
(72) Underneath the scorn, the subtext is that Morrissey's art lacks a vital virility.
(73) Sir Henry was able to scorn convention because he had turned his back on the world.
(74) And worse yet, when it changed, it did so with blunt scorn for the fantasists.
(75) Even his most generous acts were received with hostility and scorn, and this encouraged a natural predisposition towards tyranny and excess.
(76) She lashed the class with scorn and ridicule and punished them for the nasty thoughts in her own mind.
(77) Pentheus by now was blind to everything except his anger and his scorn.
(78) His complicity, if proved, would be a sensation,(http://sentencedict.com/scorn.html) but even his critics poured scorn on the accusation.
(79) She would rage and scorn, and hold me close for a minute, and promise to leave him to rot away.
(80) So many hon. Members have poured scorn, but what makes a political society work?
(81) Where glues are concerned, I, personally, would not scorn to wear both a belt and braces.
(82) Now I think she's beginning to realize that I scorn her.
(83) Daily newspapers heaped scorn on the Sierra Club for considering the anti-immigration measure.
(84) It was on the tip of her tongue to pour scorn and disbelief on the idea of Guy liking ballet.
(85) He looked very doubtful when I asked certain questions and laughed me to scorn when I gave my verdict.
(86) A phoenix-like ascension has been threatened before, over these last long 16 years of derision and scorn.
(87) Marry as I order you or I brand you as wanton for everyone to scorn.
(88) He thinks scorn of wastefulness in his superiors.
(89) A feeling or show of contempt and aloofness; scorn.
(90) He is a target for scorn.
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