scorn
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It does not scorn God or faith, but the misuse of both by petty manipulators.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
"And I'm not saying that out of scorn."
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Let’s hear it for well-targeted scorn: An iPad-like tablet with a zombifying effect on children is the villain of “Toy Story 5.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 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
Mary moved her things to Hob to avoid the scorn of her cabin mates.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
The once beloved shoe maker has become the stock that Wall Street scorns.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
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
And she consistently scorns consideration of congressional intent.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2023
He scolds her for being insufficiently militant, and scorns the civil rights movement for being too pacific, too slow-moving, to effect real change.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2021
I tells them how it happened in a dream, but they scorns me.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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
A few years later, scorned by the king, Magellan is limping around Lisbon like a scruffy, taskless animal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2026
Hell hath no fury like a Lily Allen scorned.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025
She would begin with a silkworm—the one “worm” no one scorned.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
On the contrary, he mistrusts them, scorning even the praise heaped upon him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
Onstage, Carmen was passionately scorning her erstwhile lover.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
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
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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