Definitions for scorns

scorns scorn

Spelling: [skawrn]
IPA: /skɔrn/

Scorns is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in scorns (cnorss).

Definitions for scorns

noun

  1. open or unqualified contempt; disdain:
  2. an object of derision or contempt.
  3. a derisive or contemptuous action or speech.

Idioms

  1. laugh to scorn, to ridicule; deride:

verb (used with object)

  1. to treat or regard with contempt or disdain:
  2. to reject, refuse, or ignore with contempt or disdain:

verb (used without object)

  1. to mock; jeer.

Origin of scorns

1150-1200; (noun) Middle English scorn, scarn Old French escarn Germanic (compare obsolete Dutch schern mockery, trickery); (v.) Middle English skarnen, sc(h)ornen Old French escharnir, esche

Examples for scorns

The King in Yellow might scorn it, but it shall be worn by his royal servant.

But Hester was far less ready to scorn on her own account than on the part of another.

In his very first independent play he answered the scorners with scorn.

Ricky Gervais, the sultan of scorn, uttered that cheeky bit while emceeing the Golden Globes ceremony a few years back.

It seemed as if she grew an inch taller in her scorn of the Inspector's saying.

There are those in the world who scorn our vision of human dignity and freedom.

This idea fell out of favor in the last century—and was looked on with scorn as “unscientific.”

Heap praise, not scorn, on physicians who are brave and caring enough to recommend cannabis when appropriate.

Then, with scorn for my folly, I ran out into the hall, crying for help.

Hanauer has been making the same case for years, drawing heaps of both praise and scorn.

Word Value for scorns
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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