scorned
past simple and past participle of
scorn
Meaning of scorned in English
to show scorn for someone or something:
You scorned all my suggestions.
- blow
- blow something/someone off
- brush
- brush someone/something aside
- chopped liver
- damn
- denigrate
- denigration
- laugh
- leave something at the door idiom
- look down on someone
- minoritize
- never
- on the front burner idiom
- shrug something off
- skate over/around something
- sniff at something
- sweep something aside
- talk something down
- wave
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Examples of scorned
scorned
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
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.
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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.
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The ingrates, formerly beautiful women, must now live as pathetic and horrifyingly ugly souls because they scorned their suitors.
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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.
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This practice was scorned by a nave newcomer who prided herself on being sensible and intellii gent.
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Medieval moralists scorned any form of profit as "usury," seeing it as unjust exchange.
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He scorned the device suggested by the author of flinging himself into an armchair.
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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.
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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.
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Nietzsche repeatedly scorned anyone who would follow another master.
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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.
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Glaucus's unhappiness is a new triumph for the enemy whom he had scorned.
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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.
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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.
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Serve scorned the assumptions behind this bounty.
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