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That effeminate creature in the 7-11 you scorn is suffering the consequences of other mens sins, you only lower yourself if you abuse that person because of your own false perceptions. The Volokh Conspiracy » Just Wondering 2010

That will earn you a rebuke from Sarcastro, whose scorn is rightly to be laughed at feared. Glenn Reynolds (InstaPundit) About Whether ObamaCare Is Constitutional 2010 The Volokh Conspiracy » Our Own Randy Barnett Talks to Prof. Sometimes scorn, and the expression of scorn, is warranted. Not quite six feet tall, he had probably been handsome until something ugly inside reached maximum levels and seeped out, eroding him until only an expression of scorn remained. In spite of what he called his scorn of vulgar prejudices, he felt a thrill of strange emotion as he looked on these once familiar objects. noun lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike.noun open disrespect for a person or thing.noun countable A display of disdain A slight.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.verb intransitive To scoff, express contempt.verb transitive To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody to despise.intransitive verb To scoff to mock to show contumely, derision, or reproach to act disdainfully.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.transitive verb To treat with extreme contempt to make the object of insult to mock to scoff at to deride.transitive verb To hold in extreme contempt to reject as unworthy of regard to despise to contemn to disdain.noun to deride to make a mock of to ridicule as contemptible.noun to regard as worthy of scorn or contempt to disdain.noun An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision.noun An act or expression of extreme contempt.noun Extreme and lofty contempt haughty disregard that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.noun An object, of derision, contempt, or disdain a thing to be or that is treated with contempt a reproach or disgrace.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.noun The expression of mockery, derision, contempt, or disdain a scoff a slight.noun Mockery derision contempt disdain.To point with scorn scoff jeer: generally with at.To disdain is to have a high-minded abhorrence of, or a proud and haughty contempt of. To scorn is to have an extreme and passionate contempt for.

To despise is to look down upon with strong contempt from a superior position of some sort. Contemn is the generic term, expressing the fact it is not so strong as contempt. In this they differ from the corresponding nouns and from despise, which apply with equal freedom to persons and things. Contemn, scorn, and disdain less often apply to persons.

Synonyms Contemn, Despise, Scorn, Disdain.

To bring into insignificance or into contempt.

To bring to scorn treat with scorn or contempt make a mock of deride.

To hold in scorn or contempt disdain despise: as, to scorn a hypocrite to scorn all meanness.

transitive verb To consider or reject (doing something) as beneath one's dignity.

transitive verb To reject or refuse with derision: synonym: despise.

transitive verb To consider or treat as contemptible or unworthy.

noun Archaic One spoken of or treated with contempt.

noun The state of being despised or dishonored.

noun The expression of such an attitude in behavior or speech derision.

noun Contempt or disdain felt toward a person or object considered despicable or unworthy.

From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.