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• The conservative merchantry scorned formal schooling as the devised snare that threatened to lure their sons away from the family firm and the merchant estate.

• Given these definitions, reflexivity may be either an intended or an unintended property of social science; it may be desired or scorned, elaborated or denied.

• The ingrates, formerly beautiful women, must now live as pathetic and horrifyingly ugly souls because they scorned their suitors.

• Widely scorned within the philosophical community in the 1940s and 1950s, the book, said some positivist philosophers, was a less-than-careful statement of their doctrines.

• This practice was scorned by a nave newcomer who prided herself on being sensible and intellii gent.

• Medieval moralists scorned any form of profit as "usury," seeing it as unjust exchange.

• He scorned the device suggested by the author of flinging himself into an armchair.

• Even more incongruously it had made him a figure to be courted, albeit not always with great appetite, by the cultural and artistic intelligentsia that had heretofore scorned him.

• Really, they were little better than the meridian of the earth, which he had just scorned, because the solid theoretical explanation of invariance was still lacking.

• Nietzsche repeatedly scorned anyone who would follow another master.

• Now she regrets her pride because she fears that her true lover has found another sweetheart and that it will be her turn to be scorned.

• Glaucus's unhappiness is a new triumph for the enemy whom he had scorned.

• She scorned the possibility that these virtues were exploited as a form of social control, and saw hypocrisy as in essence ethical, upholding standards whatever one's personal failures.

• Along these lines, it is sometimes argued that the favored social security program was designed for men earning wages and the scorned welfare program was designed for women with children.

• Serve scorned the assumptions behind this bounty.