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.
lampoon English
Noun
( en noun)
A written attack ridiculing a person, group, or institution.
Derived terms
* lampoonery
Verb
( en verb)
To satirize or poke fun at.
Synonyms
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Derived terms
* lampooner
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scorn English
Verb
( en verb)
To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
* C. J. Smith
- We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.
To scoff, express contempt.
To reject, turn down
- He scorned her romantic advances.
To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
- She scorned to show weakness.
Synonyms
* See also
Noun
(uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
(countable) A display of disdain; a slight.
* Dryden
- Every sullen frown and bitter scorn / But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.
(countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
* Bible, Psalms xliv. 13
- 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 also
Derived terms
* scornful
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