Thesaurus / scorn
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That Microsoft was about to stop supporting a PC it is currently selling and for which it controls everything from the firmware to the drivers earned the company some well-deserved scorn from users and the press.
MICROSOFT WILL SUPPORT SOME, BUT NOT MOST, 7TH-GEN INTEL CORE CPUS IN WINDOWS 11ANDREW CUNNINGHAMAUGUST 27, 2021ARS TECHNICAIn the theater, there was a kind of scorn, if I may say, for sitcoms.
CHRISTOPHER LLOYD IS STILL PLAYING CHARACTERS WHO ARE UNHINGED — AND LARGER THAN LIFEKAREN HELLERAUGUST 26, 2021WASHINGTON POSTYounger generations typically don’t approach fast food with the same amount of scorn, and sandwich releases now come with celebrity endorsements and the same level of anticipation as sneaker drops.
THE ARCH DELUXE WAS A HELL OF A BURGER. IT WAS ALSO MCDONALD’S MOST EXPENSIVE FLOP.JEREMY GLASSJULY 23, 2021EATERThe outsize power of celebrity billionaires and influencers to steer the market has drawn scorn from committed investors and from regulators worried about manipulation.
CRYPTOCURRENCIES CRASH IN BRUTAL SELL-OFF, WITH BITCOIN DOWN NEARLY 10 PERCENTHAMZA SHABANMAY 19, 2021WASHINGTON POSTPlus, social media scorn also takes place after the fact—when harm to the animal has already been done.
THE ETHICS OF WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHYMIKE KOSHMRLAPRIL 14, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEThey toiled on southern plantations and in northern coal mines, were restricted to living in mining towns and the like, and were treated with scorn and abuse.
WHAT MY MOBSTER GRANDFATHER UNDERSTOOD ABOUT AMERICAN CAPITALISMRUSSELL SHORTOMARCH 17, 2021TIMESecond, his scorn for President Putin appears to have touched the president in a more personal way than previous critics.
CAN NAVALNY’S OPPOSITION MOVEMENT SURVIVE?TRACY MORANMARCH 11, 2021OZYThe United States becomes a fixed entity with static principles, inviting approval or scorn.
WE TEACH STUDENTS HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE U.S., NOT TO LOVE IT — OR HATE ITDANIEL IMMERWAHRDECEMBER 23, 2020WASHINGTON POSTUnsanitary conditions in those camps helped fuel a health crisis that drew international scorn on San Diego.
FAULCONER HOPES HIS ACTION ON HOMELESSNESS WILL OVERSHADOW HIS FAILURELISA HALVERSTADTDECEMBER 7, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOThen she put her anger from her; put from her, too, the insolence and scorn with which so lavishly she had addressed him hitherto.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIWORDS RELATED TO SCORN
- beard
- brave
- bully
- call one's bluff
- confront
- cope
- denounce
- disregard
- face
- face off
- front
- goad
- insult
- knock chip off shoulder
- laugh at
- make my day
- meet
- mock
- muster courage
- oppose
- outdare
- provoke
- resist
- run the gauntlet
- scorn
- spurn
- square off
- step over the line
- take one on
- taunt
- threaten
- throw down the gauntlet
- baffled
- bearded
- braved
- confronted
- contemned
- dared
- defeated
- derided
- despised
- disregarded
- eluded
- faced
- flew in face of
- flouted
- foiled
- fronted
- gibed
- hung tough
- hurled defiance at
- ignored
- insulted
- made my day
- mocked
- opposed
- outdared
- provoked
- repelled
- repulsed
- resisted
- ridiculed
- scorned
- slighted
- spurned
- stuck
- stuck fast
- thwarted
- took one on
- ventured
- violated
- withstood
- baffles
- beards
- braves
- confronts
- contemns
- dares
- defeats
- derides
- despises
- disregards
- eludes
- faces
- flies in face of
- flouts
- foils
- fronts
- gibes
- hangs tough
- hurls defiance at
- ignores
- insults
- makes my day
- mocks
- opposes
- outdares
- provokes
- repels
- repulses
- resists
- ridicules
- scorns
- slights
- spurns
- sticks
- sticks fast
- takes one on
- thwarts
- ventures
- violates
- withstands
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