MEANING
1. A feeling or display of contemptuous dislike, often mixed with indignation or mockery.
2. To reject or treat someone or something with contempt.
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Words that belong together
- treat with scorn
- quiet scorn
- voice scorn
- scorn an offer
- scorn a warning
- scorn convention
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The proposal was met with quiet scorn.
She scorned the cheap apology, though her hands trembled.
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As a noun, it names contempt; as a verb, it means to reject or treat something contemptuously. Sense 2: The verb usually takes a person, offer, warning, or convention as its object.
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