scorn
/skɔːn/
noun
🇬🇧 UK
/skɔːn/
🇺🇸 US
/skɔɹn/
Meaning
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Meaning 1 · noun
Contempt or disdain.
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Meaning 2 · noun
A display of disdain; a slight.
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Meaning 3 · noun
An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
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Meaning 4 · verb
To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
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Meaning 5 · verb
To reject, turn down.
“He scorned her romantic advances.”
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Meaning 6 · verb
To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
“She scorned to show weakness.”
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Meaning 7 · verb
To scoff, to express contempt.
How this word is used
- General “He scorned her romantic advances.”
- General “She scorned to show weakness.”
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