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scorns

NOUN

contempt toward something

Synonyms

STRONGEST

derision disdain mockery ridicule sarcasm sneer

STRONG

contemptuousness contumely despisal despite disparagement disregard jeering scoffing slight sport taunting teasing

WEAK

despisement scornfulness

Antonyms

STRONGEST

flattery praise respect

STRONG

compliment

WEAK

approval delight pleasure

VERB

hold in contempt; look down on

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abhor defy deride despise disdain disregard flout hate ignore mock refute reject repudiate ridicule shun spurn taunt

STRONG

avoid confute contemn gibe refuse renounce slight sneer trash

WEAK

be above consider beneath one make fun of put down run down scoff at turn back on turn nose up at

Antonyms

STRONGEST

accept admire approve cherish compliment esteem flatter like love note pay attention praise ratify regard respect sanction

STRONG

allow

Example Sentences

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But it also turns him into a lonely, rigidly neoclassicist oddball who scorns his professors, prefers books to his flighty peers and still can’t seem to take care of himself.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2025

And she consistently scorns consideration of congressional intent.

From Slate • Jul. 31, 2023

Speaking in a gravelly deadpan that increasingly resembles the voice of the stand-up Steven Wright, Dylan sounds like he scorns canned laughs, a betrayal of one of the last things you could trust.

From Seattle Times • May 24, 2021

He scorns cousins who, he said, were never important enough to even exile, and who, having failed in their efforts to supplant his father and him, were now targeting his daughter.

From New York Times • May 9, 2021

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

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison