Scorn vs Flout - What's the difference?
scorn | flout |
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
To express contempt for the rules by word or action.
* 2012 , The Economist, Sep 29th 2012 issue,
To scorn.
* Walton
* Byron
The act by which something is flouted.
* 2012 , John Flowerdew, Discourse in English Language Education (page 97)
As verbs the difference between scorn and flout
is that scorn is to feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise while flout is to express contempt for the rules by word or action.As a noun scorn
is (uncountable) contempt or disdain.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.
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 alsoDerived terms
* scornfulAnagrams
*flout
English
Verb
Tax alchemy: Tech's avoidance
- The manoeuvres of Microsoft and HP appear to comply with the letter of the regulations, even if they flout their spirit.
- Phillida flouts me.
- Three gaudy standards flout the pale blue sky.
Usage notes
* Do not confuse with flaunt.Noun
(en noun)- A flout is when someone deliberately and ostentatiously contravenes a maxim.