Examples of 'scorn' in a sentence

Meaning of "scorn"

Scorn: a feeling and expression of contempt or disdain towards someone or something
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  • To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
  • To reject, turn down.
  • To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
  • To scoff, to express contempt.

How to use "scorn" in a sentence

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He will scorn them the bitterer now.
Teach not thy lip such scorn.
One must use scorn if one is to recover.
Scorn ill becomes such winsome lips.
They were showing scorn and received no answer.
Scorn and contempt destroy loving relationships.
Their cruelty and scorn always prevails.
The scorn of the men was readily near.
I myself would not scorn such an ornament.
The scorn directed at grandparents is not accidental.
And all who scorn evil deeds.
The scorn in her voice is impossible to reproduce.
So he had a lot of scorn directed against him.
Scorn and the war on the poor.
They could scorn the working people.

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He becomes immobile in the cold dream of scorn.
We do not scorn eiter te stable or te simple linen.
Speed laughs at him in scorn and roars.
Like your scorn for the aristocracy.
You have turned love into scorn.
We usually scorn people whom we do not know.
Then our friends and family to scorn us.
Hold your scorn until you taste it.
That woman that would be allowed to scorn me.
There are some who scorn those conquests.
With scorn divine he turns his eyes.
This roused the scorn of the cadets.
Give scorn to the one who brought it to us.
Religion is held up to scorn in the public square.
I will not be able to endure his scorn.
I deserved scorn far more than sympathy.
Even an intellectual can not scorn that.
And who can scorn inexorable fate.
I would only get hatred and scorn.
He refused with scorn to listen to such proposals.
She was a woman who did not scorn wickedness.
We may scorn the terms of peace.
You do him injury to scorn his corse.
It was seen as a term of both commendation and scorn.
Sylvia distributed her scorn fairly evenly.
Sitwell treated her enemies with scorn.
One more reason to scorn our lawmakers.
Never were idols treated with such scorn.
He had a sort of provincial scorn of literary people.
Radicals greeted the news with scorn.
We do not wish to scorn or ridicule humankind.
But their heart was full with scorn.
I have more scorn over a pimple.
Bound to leave some serious scorn behind.
I can not scorn this world.

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