scorn
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Much of his scorn, for example, is directed at the millennial Lean In crowd that wanted women to be more like successful men—ambitious and loud.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026
Deserving special scorn are the injection-molded plastic skirts biting into the bottom of the seat cushion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
The UK’s scorn for Eurovision is something Finland also used to struggle with.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
Someone who has no retirement savings in middle age can, unfortunately, receive the same amount of scorn as a well-heeled retiree who has $10 million in middle age.
From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026
Now that we were alone, she was free to deliver her scorn with both barrels.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
More than once Mr. Vance scorns elite “strivers” and purports to feel shame that he once tried hard to gain admittance to their circles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Martinique official Serge Letchimy hailed a vote that he said had come "to shatter a system that tramples on the truth, absolves the guilty, and scorns the victims".
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
And she consistently scorns consideration of congressional intent.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2023
His tasteful outfit layers black on black on black, he scorns flash and eyeliner.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2023
I tells them how it happened in a dream, but they scorns me.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
The humble tomato, beloved by many yet scorned by some, slowly awakens from hibernation, reminding us that warm weather, spent indulging in fresh salads and produce-filled sandwiches, is almost here.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2026
In a 1991 interview, retired Chief Justice Warren Burger scorned the view that the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear arms belongs to individuals rather than a collective militia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
A few years later, scorned by the king, Magellan is limping around Lisbon like a scruffy, taskless animal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2026
Hell hath no fury like a Lily Allen scorned.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025
A craftsman of the old school, he scorned progress.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
And so it is that the U.S. is scorning an offer of near-free rein, out of annoyance at the lack of formal closing papers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
We had both gone to law school to pursue public interest law, scorning classmates whose sole ambition was to land a job at a big firm and make six figures upon graduation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
By scorning this routine digital probing, they attenuate their safety and intensify their exhilaration in roughly equal measure.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2022
He spent a lifetime scorning bigotry as not only immoral but irrational and un-American.
From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2022
Making all that show of humbleness and scorning him all the time!
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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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