scorn
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Scorn for precedent is the most venerable youth-culture tradition of them all, making hippies irrelevant as either forebears or entertaining objects of ridicule to anyone under 30.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2019
Scorn for trade agreements simply serves as the first example of this new attitude.
From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2017
Scorn has turned to sympathy which has turned to empathy, though it didn't happen in time to save Gimblett, or any number of others.
From The Guardian • Feb. 12, 2013
French President Francois Hollande’s Inability to Tie a Necktie Earns France’s Scorn French President Francois Hollande had barely taken office when he got in the hottest of hot water—in France at least: a sartorial gaffe.
From Newsweek • Nov. 10, 2012
And Apollodorus the Carystian, in his Stirrer-up of Law-suits, says— O men, whoe'er you are, why do you now Scorn pleasant living, and turn all your thoughts To do each other mischief in fierce war?
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
Vocabulary lists containing scorn
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791)
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