scorn

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

Deserving special scorn are the injection-molded plastic skirts biting into the bottom of the seat cushion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

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

From BBC ● May 17, 2026

A lesser cat might have begged for mercy, but all I showed them was my scorn!

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth

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

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.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2025

And she consistently scorns consideration of congressional intent.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2023

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

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

They are, after all, world champions - and scorned ones at that.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

In a 1991 interview, retired Chief Justice Warren Burger scorned the view that the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear arms belongs to individuals rather than a collective militia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

When “Frankenstein” was first published without Shelley’s name, and chatter about its author began to spread, an early commentary in the British Critic scorned the dissonance between Shelley’s womanhood and the novel’s monstrous narrative.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 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

She scorned them all as “kneelers,” and had thrice attempted to escape.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

On the contrary, he mistrusts them, scorning even the praise heaped upon him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 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

Once more, I saw Miss Lilian sweeping down those stairs, head high, scorning Mother as she passed her, glaring at Georgie and me.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn