scorned

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scorn

(skôrn)

a. Contempt or disdain felt toward a person or object considered despicable or unworthy: viewed his rivals with scorn.

b. The expression of such an attitude in behavior or speech; derision: heaped scorn upon his rivals.

c. The state of being despised or dishonored: held in scorn by his rivals.

2. Archaic One spoken of or treated with contempt.

tr.v. scorned, scorn·ing, scorns

1. To consider or treat as contemptible or unworthy: an artist who was scorned by conservative critics.

2. To reject or refuse with derision: scorned their offer of help. See Synonyms at despise.

3. To consider or reject (doing something) as beneath one's dignity: "She disapproved so heartily of Flora's plan that she would have scorned to assist in the concoction of a single oily sentence" (Stella Gibbons).

[Middle English, from Old French escarn, of Germanic origin.]

scorn′er n.

scorn′ful adj.

scorn′ful·ly adv.

scorn′ful·ness n.

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Adj.

scorned - treated with contempt

despised, detested, hated

unloved - not loved

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Downright English am I, Sir Knight, and downright English was my patron St Dunstan, and scorned oc and oui, as he would have scorned the parings of the devil's hoof downright English alone shall be sung in this cell.''

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You have been studying Novels I suspect." I scorned to answer: it would have been beneath my dignity.

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I daresay we sighed, but never were collaborators more prepared for rejection, and though my mother might look wistfully at the scorned manuscript at times and murmur,

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"She might have died and welcome," said Sancho, "when she pleased and how she pleased; and she might have left me alone, for I never made her fall in love or scorned her.

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