Lampoon vs Scorn - What's the difference?
lampoon | scorn |
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 nouns the difference between lampoon and scorn
is that lampoon is a written attack ridiculing a person, group, or institution while scorn is (uncountable) contempt or disdain.As verbs the difference between lampoon and scorn
is that lampoon is to satirize or poke fun at while scorn is to feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.scorn
English
Verb
(en verb)- We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.
- He scorned her romantic advances.
- She scorned to show weakness.
Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
- 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.
