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scorn

/skɔːn/

noun

Meaning

  • Contempt or disdain.

  • A display of disdain; a slight.

  • An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.

verb

Meaning

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

  • To reject, turn down.

    "He scorned her romantic advances."

  • To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.

    "She scorned to show weakness."

  • To scoff, to express contempt.

Synonyms

deride,
mock,
ridicule,
scoff,
sneer