scorn

Turning away from the failure of his utopian dreams, Usnavy becomes obsessed with a family heirloom, a lamp that brings him comforting visions of “a vibrant African moon”—to the scorn of his friends.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

It does not scorn God or faith, but the misuse of both by petty manipulators.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

"And I'm not saying that out of scorn."

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Much of his scorn, for example, is directed at the millennial Lean In crowd that wanted women to be more like successful men—ambitious and loud.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026

They insulted each other in print and each poured scorn on the other’s results.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

More than once Mr. Vance scorns elite “strivers” and purports to feel shame that he once tried hard to gain admittance to their circles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Martinique official Serge Letchimy hailed a vote that he said had come "to shatter a system that tramples on the truth, absolves the guilty, and scorns the victims".

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

Last month, Vance, a self-described foreign policy “realist” who scorns the practice of describing countries as “good guys” and “bad guys,” caused quite a stir at the Munich Security Conference in Germany.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2025

And he is turning to the same people-pleasing script, seeking to mollify a faction of his conference he privately scorns.

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2023

I tells them how it happened in a dream, but they scorns me.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

They are, after all, world champions - and scorned ones at that.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

There are few things more universally powerful than a mama’s boy scorned.

From Salon ● May 10, 2026

In a 1991 interview, retired Chief Justice Warren Burger scorned the view that the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear arms belongs to individuals rather than a collective militia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

A few years later, scorned by the king, Magellan is limping around Lisbon like a scruffy, taskless animal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2026

A craftsman of the old school, he scorned progress.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

And so it is that the U.S. is scorning an offer of near-free rein, out of annoyance at the lack of formal closing papers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

We had both gone to law school to pursue public interest law, scorning classmates whose sole ambition was to land a job at a big firm and make six figures upon graduation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

By scorning this routine digital probing, they attenuate their safety and intensify their exhilaration in roughly equal measure.

From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2022

He spent a lifetime scorning bigotry as not only immoral but irrational and un-American.

From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2022

Once more, I saw Miss Lilian sweeping down those stairs, head high, scorning Mother as she passed her, glaring at Georgie and me.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn