Scorn vs Contemptuous - What's the difference?
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As a verb scorn is to feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise. As a noun scorn is (uncountable) contempt or disdain. As an adjective contemptuous is showing contempt; expressing disdain; showing a lack of respect.
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scorn English
Verb
( en verb)
To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
* C. J. Smith
- We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.
To scoff, express contempt.
To reject, turn down
- He scorned her romantic advances.
To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
- She scorned to show weakness.
Synonyms
* See also
Noun
(uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
(countable) A display of disdain; a slight.
* Dryden
- Every sullen frown and bitter scorn / But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.
(countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
* Bible, Psalms xliv. 13
- Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Usage notes
* Scorn'' is often used in the phrases ''pour scorn on'' and ''heap scorn on .
Quotations
* circa 1605': The cry is still 'They come': our castle's strength / Will laugh a siege to '''scorn — ''
* 1967', Rain of tears, real, mist of imagined '''scorn — John Berryman, ''Berryman's Sonnets . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Synonyms
* See also
Derived terms
* scornful
Anagrams
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contemptuous English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Showing contempt; expressing disdain; showing a lack of respect.
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* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest
, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.
Derived terms
* contemptuously
Related terms
* contempt
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