scorn
/skɔɹn/ verb C1- To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
- To reject, turn down with disdain. · He scorned her romantic advances.
- To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself. · She scorned to show weakness.
- To scoff, to express contempt.
He/she/it scorns · Past scorned · Past participle scorned · -ing form scorning
Verb forms
- Base form
- scorn
- He/she/it
- scorns
- Past
- scorned
- Past participle
- scorned
- -ing form
- scorning
From the library
Those rules of deduction laid down in that article which aroused your scorn, are invaluable to me in practical work.
I just swept her a look of freezing scorn and she got as red as a beet and spelled it wrong after all.”
“It’s likely I’d do such a thing, isn’t it?” said Diana with just scorn.
I was offered some Mayflowers too, but I rejected them with scorn.
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