How to use scorn in a sentence

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More sentences with scorn

• My teacher poured scorn on my attempts at writing.From the entry pour
• I've incurred scorn and odium for my actions.From the entry incur
• Zucchini and cauliflower seem to be widely scorned vegetables.From the entry scorned
• His treasonous actions earned Benedict Arnold eternal scorn.From the entry treasonous
• The worry for Europe is that love may be just as unsettling as scorn.2026 April 1, John Thornhill, “US investors prefer Europemaxxing to Europebashing”, in Financial Times, archived from the original on 02…. From the entry -maxx
• It scorns the tumult of the city; it does not hear the shouts of the driver.2016 April 28, Andrew Picard, Myk Habets, Theology and the Experience of Disability: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Voices Down…. From the entry saltland
• For the umpteenth time that day one of my fellow men regarded me with scorn.2012, Doris Piserchia, The Dimensioneers. From the entry ick
• Many Gazans scorn Fatah as corrupt and incompetent, and they dislike Hamas's overzealousness and repression.2009 January 8, Nicholas D. Kristof, “The Gaza Boomerang”, in The New York Times. From the entry incompetent
• The one-line chapter pitting gays with the abject mother of macho dismissal and scorn?2009, J. Neil C. Garcia, Philippine Gay Culture. From the entry gayless
• And what's up with that raggedy hooptie?" He regarded the Goose with scorn.2006, Beth Killian, The 310: Everything She Wants, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 114. From the entry schiz
• Verschoyle watched the ashen sea, and this reminded him of scorned and scornworthy Ireland.2001, Danilo Kiš, Duška Mikić-Mitchell, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich. From the entry scornworthy
• He had secured scorn and rejection for her instead of exalted duchesshood!1985, Kimon S. Neophyte, Xenos, Kabelkarnimf, →ISBN, page 205. From the entry duchesshood
• Cole has little but scorn for France's famed Bikini bathing suits.1950 October 2, “In the Swim”, in Time. From the entry bikini
• Even such a modest adjective as “exuberant” feels the edge of Durante’s scorn.1947 October, Cameron Shipp, "America's No. 1 Clown" Coronet vol. 22 no. 10 p. 17. From the entry catastroscope
• The very stenogs who had scorned them before wanted them now.1925, The National Druggist, volume 55. From the entry stenog
• With scorn and contemptuosity we have to record that this profiteering salesman only offered £1!1919 May, “[Year Notes.] Fifth Year Notes.”, in The Speculum. The Journal of the Melbourne Medical Students’ Society., number 103…. From the entry contemptuosity
• It vents for we cannot, due to society's scorn.2023, A. C. MacDonald, Twistwood Tales (comic), Andrews McMeel, →ISBN, page 85. From the entry moirologist
• You could see the giant's scorn and fury dim down all at once, as if it were on a rheostat.2004, Tom Wolfe, “The Tailgaters”, in I am Charlotte Simmons, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 312. From the entry rheostat
• Such a suggestion—even a timid one in her own head—would have been met with a brimful of scorn.2002, Hayley Ann Solomon, A Scandalous Connection, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN. From the entry brimful
• The uncorrected child who scorns, mocks and laughs at others is subconsciously being educated to become a perpetrator of leitzanus.2002, Moshe Young, Apples from the Tree: Transmitting Torah Values to Our Children. From the entry leitzanus
• I scorn further words against this sky-borne foe.1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 80. From the entry skyborne
• The object of scorn in the films are not transpersons, but the bigoted transphobes who are made to look like fools.1999, Gordene O. Mackenzie, "50 Billion Galaxies of Gender: Transgendering the Millennium", in Reclaiming Genders: Transsexual Grammars at…. From the entry transphobe
• They denounced plutocrats and extolled bums, reviled lime-lighters and scorned the fakirs who smoodged for the support of the wage slaves.1995, Verity Burgmann, Revolutionary Industrial Unionism: The Industrial Workers of the World in Australia, page 29. From the entry smoodge
• Armstrong (with scorn): Abe, where are your muscles?1974, Laura Ross, “Young Abe Wrestles Armstrong”, in Holiday Puppets, New York, N.Y.: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, →ISBN, “Lincoln’s…. From the entry don't count your chicks before they hatch
• The Church witnessed the remocking of its Lord by the scorn cast upon itself and its eternal claims.1960, Patrick Cowley, Advent: Its Liturgical Significance, page 38. From the entry remock
• His first reaction was one of scorn.1953, Ian Fleming, “The Crawling of the Skin”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 111. From the entry rag
• He scorned my wholesome kennel fare, toothing out dainties and leaving the grosser portions to be finished by the other dogs.1944, Emily Carr, “Lorenzo Was Registered”, in The House of All Sorts. From the entry gross
• Translators, who would scorn to transliterate the actual German words, yet content themselves with merely transverbalising the German sentences.1938, Purpose, page 114. From the entry transverbalize
• The humbug of the woe-of-the-world business filled her with scorn.1935, Warwick Deeping, The golden cord, page 119. From the entry sloppery
• What scorn, what contumely, would be his!1914, Grace Livingston Hill, The Best Man. From the entry contumely
• The admonitions of her visitor “she scorned in a headful laughter,” and called his ghostly counsel “Trittle Trattle.”1913, Roughead, William, Twelve Scots Trials, page 26. From the entry trittle trattle
• "There spoke the real British scorn," she said, sugaring her tea, "the fine British contempt for every other nation."1905, “The Duke of Castle Blanco”, in The Quiver, page 1007. From the entry sugar
• They turned and ran dogward while I, motivated by their scorn, moved off lethargically through the vines, thorns, and creepers, a caricature of lethal determination.2015, Herb Payson, Blown Away, page 115. From the entry dogward
• Strict disciples of history as a science may scorn the intuitive process, but that attitude comes from being more Catholic than the Pope.2011, Barbara W. Tuchman, Practicing History: Selected Essays, page 59. From the entry more Catholic than the Pope
• Bloggers with a science background, like bloggers on most other topics, often demonstrate open scorn for the mainstream media (MSM in blogspeak).2009 March 19, Geoff Brumfiel, “Science journalism: Supplanting the old media?”, in Nature, volume 458, number 7236, →DOI, page 276. From the entry blogspeak
• Another notable difference is that warbloggers eventually made themselves heard on their own terms by the mainstream media, which had initially scorned them.2009, Melissa Wall, “The Taming of the Warblogs: Citizen Journalism and the War in Iraq”, in Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen, editors, Citizen…. From the entry warblogger
• Miles was taken seriously by the great dames of Manhattan society and was not scorned by even the most Philistine of their husbands.2002, Louis Auchincloss, “The Heiress”, in Manhattan Monologues, New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry philistine

Meaning of scorn

1. verb To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
2. verb To reject, turn down with disdain.
3. verb To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.

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Questions about scorn in a sentence

How do you use scorn in a sentence?

Scorn is used as a verb and noun. For example: “He scorned her romantic advances.”

What is a short sentence with scorn?

“He scorned her romantic advances.”

What does scorn mean?

Scorn means to feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.