scorn

"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

We’re sorry for any ruffled feathers, but someone has to say this after the outpouring of scorn directed at Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh this week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

But this claim that has attracted scorn from figures in the art world.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Prince Balekin, the firstborn, and his set are known as the Circle of Grackles, for those who enjoy merriment and who scorn anything getting in the way of it.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

The once beloved shoe maker has become the stock that Wall Street scorns.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

It scorns those who won’t shake hands with an opponent postgame.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Last month, Vance, a self-described foreign policy “realist” who scorns the practice of describing countries as “good guys” and “bad guys,” caused quite a stir at the Munich Security Conference in Germany.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2025

And she consistently scorns consideration of congressional intent.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2023

I tells them how it happened in a dream, but they scorns me.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

They are, after all, world champions - and scorned ones at that.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 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

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

A part of her wanted to stay home, to simply be with her children, but her own mother had always scorned those women who didn’t work.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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

Onstage, Carmen was passionately scorning her erstwhile lover.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024

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

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