scorn

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  GENERAL BRADDOCK AFTER SCORNING WASHINGTON'S ADVICE
• WordNet 3.6
  • v scorn reject with contempt "She spurned his advances"
  • v scorn look down on with disdain "He despises the people he has to work for","The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately"
  • n scorn open disrespect for a person or thing
  • n scorn lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike "he was held in contempt","the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary"
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"HUMPH!" SAID SHE, SCORNFULLY

• • Scorn An act or expression of extreme contempt. "Every sullen frown and bitter scorn But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn."
  • Scorn An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision. "Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us."
  • Scorn Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object. "Scorn at first makes after love the more.""And wandered backward as in scorn ,
    To wait an æon to be born."
  • Scorn To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain. "I scorn thy meat; 't would choke me.""This my long sufferance, and my day of grace,
    Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste.""We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful."
  • v. i Scorn skôrn To scoff; to mock; to show contumely, derision, or reproach; to act disdainfully. "He said mine eyes were black and my hair black,
    And, now I am remembered, scorned at me."
  • Scorn To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride. "His fellow, that lay by his bed's side,
    Gan for to laugh, and scorned him full fast.""To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously."
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• • n scorn Mockery; derision; contempt; disdain.
  • n scorn The expression of mockery, derision, contempt, or disdain; a scoff; a slight.
  • n scorn An object, of derision, contempt, or disdain; a thing to be or that is treated with contempt; a reproach or disgrace.
  • scorn To hold in scorn or contempt; disdain; despise: as, to scorn a hypocrite; to scorn all meanness.
  • scorn To bring to scorn; treat with scorn or contempt; make a mock of; deride.
  • scorn To bring into insignificance or into contempt.
  • scorn Synonyms Contemn, Despise, Scorn, Disdain. Contemn, scorn, and disdain less often apply to persons. In this they differ from the corresponding nouns and from despise, which apply with equal freedom to persons and things. Contemn is the generic term, expressing the fact; it is not so strong as contempt. To despise is to look down upon with strong contempt from a superior position of some sort. To scorn is to have an extreme and passionate contempt for. To disdain is to have a high-minded abhorrence of, or a proud and haughty contempt of. See arrogance.
  • scorn To feel scorn or contempt.
  • scorn To point with scorn; scoff; jeer: generally with at.
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• • n Scorn skorn disdain caused by a mean opinion of anything: extreme contempt: object of contempt
  • v.t Scorn to hold in extreme contempt: to disdain: to make a mock of
  • v.i Scorn to scoff: to jeer
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• Bible

  

  “Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]”
• Albert Camus

  

  “Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.”
• Socrates

  

  “Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.”
• John Gay

  

  “Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.”
• Samuel Johnson

  

  “His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.”
• E. M. Cioran

  

  “To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.”

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