Scorn vs Infamy - What's the difference?
scorn | infamy |
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
The state of being infamous.
A reputation as being evil.
As nouns the difference between scorn and infamy
is that scorn is (uncountable) contempt or disdain while infamy is the state of being infamous.As a verb 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.
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
*infamy
English
Noun
(infamies)- "Infamy', '''infamy - they've all got it in for me!" - Kenneth Williams as Julius Caesar in ''Carry On Cleo
- "A date which will live in infamy " - Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour