Riddled vs Scorn - What's the difference?
riddled | scorn |
Damaged throughout by holes.
Having (something) spread throughout, as if by an infestation.
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(riddle)
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 verbs the difference between riddled and scorn
is that riddled is (riddle) while scorn is to feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.As an adjective riddled
is damaged throughout by holes.As a noun scorn is
(uncountable) contempt or disdain.riddled
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The minister claimed that the old benefits system was riddled with abuse and fraud.
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- They took a swig each from an old bottle of sherry and ate some stale digestive biscuits sealed in a tin in the mouse-riddled cupboards.
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*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.