scorn
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Scorn is not science - however often it has preceded great scientific discoveries.
From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2015
Scorn has turned to sympathy which has turned to empathy, though it didn't happen in time to save Gimblett, or any number of others.
From The Guardian • Feb. 12, 2013
French President Francois Hollande’s Inability to Tie a Necktie Earns France’s Scorn French President Francois Hollande had barely taken office when he got in the hottest of hot water—in France at least: a sartorial gaffe.
From Newsweek • Nov. 10, 2012
Grimlock is the main dino, though the creature variations include Scorn, Slash, Slug and Strafe.
From Los Angeles Times
This personage is the Thersites of our northern Homer— With witty malice studious to defame, Scorn all his joy, and laughter all his aim.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
Vocabulary lists containing scorn
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791)
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