scorn
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"And I'm not saying that out of scorn."
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
An epic hero does not scorn death; he appreciates its gravity and confronts it anyway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
He held particular scorn for the flat-earthers, who he thought were plants to discredit genuine research about extraterrestrial technology.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Or maybe Becerra was, indeed, a feckless, flailing and thoroughly awful Cabinet member, deserving of scorn and shame.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026
“Because of the Specters,” the girl said with weary scorn.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
The once beloved shoe maker has become the stock that Wall Street scorns.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
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
And she consistently scorns consideration of congressional intent.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2023
Bundy said he believes his message will resonate even in the cities he scorns because the affordable housing crisis crosses party lines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2021
I tells them how it happened in a dream, but they scorns me.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
Their reunion is surreal because it’s predicated on their mutual ability to admit fault, something that few of us have the opportunity to do after we walk away from a loved one scorned.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 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
However, he has scorned the description of Opendoor as a meme stock, describing it instead as a “cult stock.”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2025
He hated the government and scorned taxes, which the government noticed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025
I would always be the Ugly One, alone and scorned.
From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis
When Ferrari revealed the Purosangue three years ago, many in the red brigade derided the design and, more generally, the very idea of a Ferrari sport-utility vehicle, scorning it as a sort of heresy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
Onstage, Carmen was passionately scorning her erstwhile lover.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
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
Making all that show of humbleness and scorning him all the time!
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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