scorned
Example Sentences
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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.
I supposed she didn’t want to live in a neighborhood where so many people scorned her —even her own father.
From Literature
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
“I was about to find out that hell hath no fury like a man scorned,” Lunden wrote.
From Los Angeles Times
A few years later, scorned by the king, Magellan is limping around Lisbon like a scruffy, taskless animal.
From Los Angeles Times
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