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.