scorn
/skɔɹn/ noun C1- Contempt or disdain.
- A display of disdain; a slight.
- An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
Plural scorns
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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