0 present participle of scorn
1 to show scorn for someone or something:
Whenever users tried to download the song, they heard this scorning voiceover instead.
We shall go on scorning disappointments or rebuffs until we get there.
The best way to deal with that challenge is not by scorning people but by helping them.
It is no good scorning the association of peoples and languages, because they feel these things deeply.
So let us set our sights high and, scorning mere conservation of the present situation, be content with nothing less than positive improvement.
I wonder if it is not the longer imagination which, scorning the criticisms of some of his friends, has kept the country safe financially in these difficult years.
It is no use our scorning the fact that we cannot sell goods to people in other parts of the world who cannot pay for them.
In the past few years we have seen the spectacle of a once radical party scorning radicalism and affecting the theories of defunct and old-fashioned economists.
