Definitions for scorn

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scorn scorn

Spelling: [skawrn]

IPA: /skɔrn/

Scorn is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in scorn (cnors).

Definitions for scorn

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 scorn

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 scorn

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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