scorns in English

noun

1

the feeling or belief that someone or something is worthless or despicable; contempt.

I do not wish to become the object of scorn

synonyms: contempt, derision, contemptuousness, disdain, derisiveness, mockery, sneering

verb

1

feel or express contempt or derision for.

I was routinely ridiculed and scorned by conservatives and liberals alike

synonyms: deride, hold in contempt, treat with contempt, pour/heap scorn on, look down on, look down one's nose at, disdain, curl one's lip at, mock, scoff at, sneer at, jeer at, laugh at, laugh out of court, disparage, slight, dismiss, thumb one's nose at, turn one's nose up at

noun

contempt, derision, contemptuousness, disdain, derisiveness, mockery, sneering
disdain, contempt, despite
contempt

verb

deride, spurn, despise
deride, hold in contempt, treat with contempt, pour/heap scorn on, look down on, look down one's nose at, disdain, curl one's lip at, mock, scoff at, sneer at, jeer at, laugh at, laugh out of court, disparage, slight, dismiss, thumb one's nose at, turn one's nose up at
spurn, rebuff, reject, ignore, shun, snub
despise, disdain, contemn
spurn, disdain, pooh-pooh, turn down, freeze off, reject

Use "scorns" in a sentence

1. Jehovah scorns Israel’s false worship (4, 5)

2. She scorns the visible trappings of success, preferring to live unnoticed.

3. When young people pursue spiritual goals, the world often scorns them.

4. He scorns educational research as a self-indulgent and pointless waste of time.

5. Top synonyms for Contemns (other words for Contemns) are scorns, disdains and despises.

6. Antonyms for Accosts include aids, avoids, dodges, evades, helps, ignores, refrains, scorns, shuns and slights

7. Synonyms for Balks include resists, eschews, hesitates, disdains, jibs, refuses to, scorns, shrinks from, demurs from and desists

8. For example, Clarke scorns those who argue that mankind will not eventually move out to colonise the vast expanses of space.

9. 30 Surely a chess master, a player of great games and great matches, at bottom scorns a problemist's purely mathematical art.

10. 12 The sacred sacrament of Holy Orders will be ridiculed, oppressed and despised, for in doing this, one scorns and defiles the Church of God, and even God Himself,[www.Sentencedict.com] represented by His priests.

11. Art and human nature If his theme requires a genuinely obscure noun--"neoterist" (p.175), "philodoxer" (p.189), or " Caducity " (p.542)--then use that noun he does; but he scorns obscurity as a goal.

12. While analyzing the "sexual weakness that makes woman depend upon man," for example, Wollstonecraft scorns "a kind of Cattish affection which leads a wife to purr about her husband as she would about any man who fed and caressed her." If the female looks subhuman in her cattiness here, elsewhere she appears sinful in her cunning trickery.