scorn

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

The UK’s scorn for Eurovision is something Finland also used to struggle with.

From BBC ● May 17, 2026

Someone who has no retirement savings in middle age can, unfortunately, receive the same amount of scorn as a well-heeled retiree who has $10 million in middle age.

From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026

Two years ago, with the economy chugging along and inflation falling, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell dispatched a question about stagflation with humor rather than scorn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

Others still called them Mujahideen, but, when they did, they made a face—a sneering, distasteful face—the word reeking of deep aversion and deep scorn.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

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

And she consistently scorns consideration of congressional intent.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2023

She scorns bright lights, intrusive music and renovations that disrespect the first designer’s intentions.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2022

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

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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

However, he has scorned the description of Opendoor as a meme stock, describing it instead as a “cult stock.”

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2025

Even the brilliant Archimedes occasionally scorned the infinite along with his contemporaries.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

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