The phrase "a scorn" is not correct in standard English usage.
The correct expression is "scorn" without the article "a," as scorn is typically used as an uncountable noun.
Example: "She looked at him with scorn after he made that comment."
Alternatives: "contempt" or "disdain."
Even comedians reacted with a scorn that saw through the innocuous surface.
The critics "despised him with a scorn almost incredible in its ferocity," Harold Hobson, the London Times drama critic, noted.
Despite her scorn for much of the press corps — a scorn not infrequently reciprocated — they covered her anyway.
The whole world is now in on it with global populist leaders riding to success on the back of a scorn for the elites.
Is there anything particular to socialism that could fuel a scorn for women distinct from the more predictable and comprehensible sexism on the right?
For the past five years, no one else has written about the current political dispensation with a brilliance more consistent, and a scorn more magnificent, than Sidney Blumenthal.
The original Maleficent was more veracious, ambiguous, and interesting than a scorned-in-love woman out for revenge.
Lord knows what drives the Paladins, aside from a Calvinistic scorn of man as epicure.
A prevailing scorn for handcraft encouraged Guyton, who readily confesses his own manual ineptitude.
For this, does he really rate a raw scorn she only hints at for, say, Jonathan Schell and Roger Angell?
We spent most of the evening in a silent scorn.
