scorn
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Is scorn a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.Examples: "The Cry is ſtill, they come: our Caſtles ſtrength / Will laugh a Siedge to ſcorne"; "We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful."transitive
2. (transitive) To reject, turn down.Examples: "He scorned her romantic advances."; "Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd."transitive
3. (transitive) To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.Examples: "She scorned to show weakness."transitive
4. (intransitive) To scoff, to express contempt.Examples: "For miſerie doth braueſt mindes abate, / And make them ſeeke for that they wont to ſcorne, / Of fortune and of hope at once forlorne."Synonyms: deride, mock, ridicule, scoff, sneerintransitive
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) Contempt or disdain.Examples: "Rain of tears, real, mist of imagined scorn"uncountable
2. (countable) A display of disdain; a slight.Examples: "VVith ſcoffes and ſcornes, and contumelious taunts, / In open Market-place produc't they me, / To be a publique ſpectacle to all: / Here, ſayd they, is the Terror of the French, / The Scar-Crovv that affrights our Children ſo."; "Every sullen frown and bitter scorn / But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn."countable
3. (countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.Examples: "Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us."countable
Definition source: Wiktionary