0 past simple and past participle of scorn
1 to show scorn for someone or something:
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.
