scorn
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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
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
That’s one way to start a book—bracing and bitter, conveying Mary Cain’s scorn for the athletic-shoe-and-sportswear giant while prefiguring her larger message that “sports normalizes cruelty.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Rather than endure the shame of public scorn — which would still make no material difference to their levels of power— the justices would rather hide their views.
From Salon • Apr. 22, 2026
She sat down at the table and stared at him with scorn and amazement; sat down heavily, as though she had been struck.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
Vocabulary lists containing scorn
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791)
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