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On the other side of that line stands Kiffin, boldly sticking by his plan while the rest of the college football world heaps scorn on him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 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

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

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

From BBC ● May 17, 2026

It wasn’t easy tolerating him talking this way to her, to bear his scorn, his ridicule, his insults, his walking past her like she was nothing but a house cat.

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

This is especially true of its emotional beats: when Harry has trouble communicating with his son; when Albus scorns the weight of his father’s fame; when Scorpius struggles amid rumors about his parentage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2022

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

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

Brook could have appeared scorned after being overlooked for his friend and team-mate.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

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 England through much of the 20th century, conversion was tolerated—especially if you were creative—but sometimes scorned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 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

When the lad cried out that he would never be left behind, that he scorned life in comparison with death in so glorious an attempt, Nisus felt only grief and dismay.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

Now they had all seen—everyone in the shop—and no doubt were scorning him for a poor sort of creature, cringing and puny, unable to defend himself.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw