0 a very strong feeling of no respect for someone or something that you think is stupid or has no value:
She has nothing but scorn for the new generation of politicians.
Why do you always pour/heap scorn on (= criticize severely and unfairly) my suggestions?
1 to show scorn for someone or something:
2 a strong feeling that someone or something is of little or no worth and deserves no respect:
These countries deserve our respect, not the scorn of a politician.
3 to treat with a great lack of respect, or to refuse something because you think it is wrong or not acceptable:
He was scorned by his classmates for his bad behavior.
The boundary of wretched practitioners and refined doctors is again transgressed, and she even scorns the insufficiency of scientific knowledge.
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.
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.
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.
He would have scorned to destroy fish with poison or explosives.
Civil liberties, trade union freedom and the freedom of expression continue to be scorned.
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輕視,鄙視, 輕蔑地拒絕, 不屑接受…
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desprecio, despreciar, desprecio [masculine…
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mépris [masculine], mépris, mépriser…
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