scorn

Ricky Gervais, the sultan of scorn, uttered that cheeky bit while emceeing the Golden Globes ceremony a few years back.

Hanauer has been making the same case for years, drawing heaps of both praise and scorn.

Heap praise, not scorn, on physicians who are brave and caring enough to recommend cannabis when appropriate.

Nutrition nannies scorn hot dogs, but there are plenty of happy eaters who adore them.

This idea fell out of favor in the last century—and was looked on with scorn as “unscientific.”

Then she put her anger from her; put from her, too, the insolence and scorn with which so lavishly she had addressed him hitherto.

But scorn is far more volcanic than glacial and a poor barrier between sex and judgment.

"Mr. Capt don't demean himself to chambermaids, Miss Lucy," retorted the abigail with angry scorn.

For all his vaunted scorn of being a butcher at a price, now that he heard the price he seemed not half so scornful.

His face was ash-coloured and his black eyebrows quivered as though the blaze of her scorn had blinded him.