Despicable vs Scorn - What's the difference?
despicable | scorn |
English words suffixed with -able
To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
* C. J. Smith
To scoff, express contempt.
To reject, turn down
To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
(uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
(countable) A display of disdain; a slight.
* Dryden
(countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
* Bible, Psalms xliv. 13
As an adjective despicable
is fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless.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.despicable
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scorn
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Verb
(en verb)- We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.
- He scorned her romantic advances.
- She scorned to show weakness.
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- Every sullen frown and bitter scorn / But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.
- Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.