SCORN
\skˈɔːn], \skˈɔːn], \s_k_ˈɔː_n]\
Definitions of SCORN
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately"
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reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances"
By Princeton University
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look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately"
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reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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An act or expression of extreme contempt.
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An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision.
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To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain.
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To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride.
By Oddity Software
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An act or expression of extreme contempt.
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An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision.
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To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain.
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To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Scornfully.
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Disdain caused by a mean opinion: extreme contempt: object of contempt.
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To hold in extreme contempt: to disdain: (B.) TO LAUGH TO SCORN, to deride.
By Daniel Lyons
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Scornfully.
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To hold in or treat with contempt; despise.
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Extreme contempt; disdain; derision; an object of contempt.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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