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If anything, the contrast between his self-importance and his actual worthlessness is drawing louder scorn all the time.

From Salon

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.

From BBC

Between extreme fandom and pouring scorn, Reshammiya took the best from both and turned it into something unique and inordinately fun.

From BBC

But it also turns him into a lonely, rigidly neoclassicist oddball who scorns his professors, prefers books to his flighty peers and still can’t seem to take care of himself.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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