Sentence examples for scorn with from inspiring English sources

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In general, the board heard the rest of the audience's praise and scorn with equanimity.

The bank's interest-rate policy has also drawn scorn, with critics calling it deeply inconsistent.

Even David Warner came out of his exile and a mountain of scorn with considerable wit and aggression.

Gielgud could not have bettered the scorn with which he referred to "the gentleman on whose website this appeared".

The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has come in for particular scorn, with its 27 buildings, housing units for 600 people, indoor pool and basketball courts.

IN HER novel "White Teeth", published in 2000, Zadie Smith noted that in London, "all kids, whatever their nationality", seem to express scorn with a Jamaican accent.

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Perhaps with scorn, certainly with amusement at the incongruity of the project.

Pregnancy out of wedlock is scorned, with many girls ousted from school and even from home once it is obvious that they are pregnant.

Rightwing news sites see him as some sort of pantomime villain, his words parsed relentlessly, any on-air chuckle or smile scorned with puritan zeal.

As Maurizio's passed-over lover, the Princesse de Bouillon, Michaela Schuster plays the woman scorned with plausible venom, while Alessandro Corbelli adds the depressed, downtrodden stage manager Michonnet to his gallery of wonderfully observed character roles.

Our contradictory reactions to the act speak to the conflicted hold it has on our imaginations: revulsion mixed with fascination, scorn leavened with pity.

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