scorn
lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,607 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,415 times across 139,755 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike also: contempt, disdain, despite he was held in contemptthe despite in which outsiders were held is legendary
- open disrespect for a person or thing also: contempt
verb
- look down on with disdain also: contemn, despise, disdain He despises the people he has to work forThe professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately
- reject with contempt also: reject, spurn, freeze off, pooh-pooh, disdain, turn down She spurned his advances
scorn in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Be shame to him of woman born Who hath for such but thought of scorn.
Snow-bound · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1
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With this revolting discovery, with the scorn it produced, vanished all Lucretia's unstable visions of reform.
Lucretia — Volume 06 · Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · Chapter 1
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They answer with scorn, but are warned of their fate, which is even at the doors, by Halitherses.
The Odyssey of Homer · 751? BCE-651? BCE Homer · Chapter 1
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Wanton scorn hath maimed All the joy my heart enjoyed; Thoughts their thinking have disclaimed, Hate my hopes hath quite annoyed.
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia · Martha Foote [Editor] Crow · Chapter 1
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He laughed to scorn all modern potations of wishy-washy French and Rhine wines--deeming them unfit for the palate of a true-born Englishman.
Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 · Robert Seymour · Chapter 1