scorn
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"And I'm not saying that out of scorn."
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
He held particular scorn for the flat-earthers, who he thought were plants to discredit genuine research about extraterrestrial technology.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
But this claim that has attracted scorn from figures in the art world.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 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
‘Or indeed with wit to understand me? Not thou at least!’ he mocked, turning to Aragorn with scorn.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
It scorns those who won’t shake hands with an opponent postgame.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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
This is especially true of its emotional beats: when Harry has trouble communicating with his son; when Albus scorns the weight of his father’s fame; when Scorpius struggles amid rumors about his parentage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2022
I tells them how it happened in a dream, but they scorns me.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
Brook could have appeared scorned after being overlooked for his friend and team-mate.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Their reunion is surreal because it’s predicated on their mutual ability to admit fault, something that few of us have the opportunity to do after we walk away from a loved one scorned.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 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
However, he has scorned the description of Opendoor as a meme stock, describing it instead as a “cult stock.”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2025
With one exception the older residents of Medallion scorned them.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
On the contrary, he mistrusts them, scorning even the praise heaped upon him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
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
Teddy Roosevelt, who became president after McKinley’s assassination, arrived in 1903 “unshaven and travel dusty” and scorning dress duds for a banquet in his honor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
Now they had all seen—everyone in the shop—and no doubt were scorning him for a poor sort of creature, cringing and puny, unable to defend himself.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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