Sentence examples for Scorn from inspiring English sources

The word "Scorn" is usable in written English and is well written
It can be used to express contempt or disdain towards someone or something. Example: "She looked at him with scorn after he made that insensitive remark." Alternatives include "contempt" or "disdain."

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Scorn

verb

To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.

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But Zanu-PF has poured scorn on the complaints as sour grapes.

His rise from humble origins to leader of 1.25 billion people has inspired many – but also provoked scorn from elite politicians who have mocked his background.

The Liberal Democrat spokesman enjoyed the best of the early exchanges, at one point using the Conservatives' scorn at Labour's magic "efficiency savings" to pour derision on the Tories' eerily similar strategy.

Such was the new global consensus that Tibetan Buddhists resisting the radical "modernisation" of their society and landscape invited the scorn of Rupert Murdoch as well as of Hu Jintao.

The BBC's news chief James Harding has said politicians "from all parties" threatened the BBC's future funding over its election coverage, and poured scorn on allegations that it had a leftwing bias.

The US joined other UN security council members in lining up to pour scorn on a resolution drafted by Moscow approving the truce.

There is an unheard underclass who scorn politicians, laugh out loud at the local paper, frighten the middle class with their potentially threatening swagger, and continue to support two of the fallen giants of fubble, City and Rovers.

Of course it is all too easy for a person who will never be offered an honour, and so never subject to temptation, to scorn such exchanges.

Our real scorn should be directed at the people who organise the UK entry; the ones who chose this song and hid their process from view.

Asked about the poll on his LBC Radio show, Clegg poured scorn on it.

They have immense power to shape the images being broadcast, and their bodies aren't subject to the scorn – or celebration – of the world.

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