- present participle of scorn.
scorning
Example Sentences
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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
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
Making all that show of humbleness and scorning him all the time!
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
