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Scorn

/skɔːn/

Contempt or disdain.

📖 Definitions of "Scorn"

noun
  1. 1

    Contempt or disdain.

  2. 2

    A display of disdain; a slight.

  3. 3

    An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.

verb
  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    To reject, turn down.

    "He scorned her romantic advances."

  3. 3

    To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.

    "She scorned to show weakness."

  4. 4

    To scoff, to express contempt.

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