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scorn
noun as in contempt toward something
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verb as in hold in contempt; look down on
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These groups deserve shame, scorn and diplomatic rebuke — not fawning sympathy and United Nations red carpets.
Is the solution electing a governor for blue California, who — if not openly scorning the state’s millions of Republicans — is willing to render them politically powerless?
If anything, the contrast between his self-importance and his actual worthlessness is drawing louder scorn all the time.
The father beat the son regularly, and scorned nonreligious music as the devil’s work.
Hailed by some as a hero and scorned by others as a traitor, Hong Kong's pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai is in the final stage of his national security trial.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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