Definition of scorn

"scorn" in the noun sense

1. contempt, disdain, scorn, despite

lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike

"he was held in contempt"

"the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary"

2. contempt, scorn

open disrespect for a person or thing

"scorn" in the verb sense

1. contemn, despise, scorn, disdain

look down on with disdain

"He despises the people he has to work for"

"The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately"

2. reject, spurn, freeze off, scorn, pooh-pooh, disdain, turn down

reject with contempt

"She spurned his advances"

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Quotations for scorn

You scorn it as a dog does tripe. [ Proverb ]

Though I am young, I scorn to flit
On the wings of borrowed wit [ George Wither ]

Happiest they of human race,
To whom God has granted grace
To read, to fear, to hope, to pray,
To lift the latch and force the way;
And better had they ne'er been born,
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. [ Scott ]

And better had they never been born.
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. [ Scott ]

A maid oft seen, and a gown oft worn,
Are disesteemed, and held in scorn. [ Proverb ]

Inspiring bold John Barleycorn,
What dangers thou canst make us scorn. [ Burns ]

Of friends, however humble, scorn not one. [ Wordsworth ]

Scorn'd, to be scorn'd by one that I scorn,
Is that a matter to make me fret?
That a calamity hard to be borne? [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Scorn, at first, makes after-love the more. [ William Shakespeare ]

Scorn the proud man that is ashamed to weep. [ Young ]

Do not insult calamity:
It is a barbarous grossness to lay on
The weight of scorn, where heavy misery
Too much already weighs men's fortunes down. [ Daniel ]

To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize. [ Pascal ]

Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes. [ William Shakespeare ]

I pity bashful men, who feel the pain,
Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain,
And bear the marks upon a blushing face,
Of needless shame, and self-imposed disgrace. [ Cowper ]

Scorn no man's love, though of a mean degree;
Love is a present for a mighty king,--
Much less make any one thine enemy.
As guns destroy, so may a little sling. [ George Herbert ]

At every trifle scorn to take offence;
That always shows great pride or little sense. [ Pope ]

O happiness of blindness! now no beauty
Inflames my lust; no other's goods my envy,
Or misery my pity; no man's wealth
Draws my respect; nor poverty my scorn,
Yet still I see enough! man to himself
Is a large prospect, raised above the level
Of his low creeping thoughts; if then I have
A world within myself, that world shall be
My empire; there I'll reign, commanding freely,
And willingly obeyed, secure from fear
Of foreign forces, or domestic treasons. [ Denham ]

What matter though the scorn of fools be given,
If the path follow'd lead us on to heaven! [ Mrs. Hale ]

A jest driven too far brings home hate or scorn. [ Proverb ]

Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow
In his light wings, is lifted up to sky;
The scorn of knighthood and true chivalry,
To think, without desert of gentle deed
And noble worth, to be advanced high,
Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed.
Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed. [ Spenser ]

But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought
Of freedom, in that hope itself possess
All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength,
The scorn of danger, and united hearts,
The surest presage of the good they seek. [ Cowper ]

The morn is up again, the dewy morn,
With breath all incense, and with cheek all bloom,
Laughing the clouds away with playful scorn,
And living as if earth contain'd no tomb, -
And glowing into day. [ Byron ]

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble minds,)
To scorn delights and live laborious days. [ Milton ]

Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Small service is true service while it lasts.
Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one:
The daisy, by the shadow that it casts,
Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun. [ Wordsworth, to a child ]

An old man, if he be a trifler, is every one's scorn. [ Proverb ]

Scorn to trample upon a worm or to sneak to be an emperor. [ Saadi ]

He that never took oar in his hand must not think scorn to be taught. [ Proverb ]

Those that too much reverence the ancients, are a scorn to the moderns. [ Proverb ]

Gold is a living god, and rules in scorn all earthly things but virtue. [ Shelley ]

The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn. [ Ouida ]

O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful in the contempt and anger of his lip! [ William Shakespeare ]

He that is poor, all his kindred scorn him; he that is rich, all are kin to him. [ Proverb ]

Teach not thy lip such scorn; for it was made for kissing, lady, not for such contempt. [ William Shakespeare ]

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment. [ Dewey ]

Too much magnifying of man or matter doth irritate contradiction, and procure envy and scorn. [ Bacon ]

Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages. [ Cowley ]

He that cometh to seek after knowledge with a mind to scorn and censure, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but none for his instruction. [ Bacon ]

To know what is useful and what useless, and to be skilful to provide the one and wise to scorn the other, is the first need for all industrious men. [ John Ruskin ]

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot be gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect. [ Zimmermann ]

Candor is the seal of a noble mind, the ornament, and pride of man, the sweetest charm of woman, the scorn of rascals and the rarest virtue of sociability. [ Bentzel-Sternaft ]

The little mind who loves itself will write and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence. [ Goldsmith ]

Heaven must scorn the humility which we telegraph thither by genuflection; it must prefer the manliness that stands by all created gifts, and looks itself in the face without pretense of worship. [ John Weiss ]

Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex? [ Thackeray ]

The real science of political economy is that which teaches nations to desire and labour for the things that lead to life; and which teaches them to scorn and destroy the things that lead to destruction. [ John Ruskin ]

We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the soul. It is not to be surprised by any communication. Nothing can be greater than it. Let those fear and those fawn who will. The soul is in her native realm; and it is wider than space, older than time, wide as hope, rich as love. Pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who putteth on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power. [ Emerson ]

scorn in Scrabble®

The word scorn is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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scorn in Words With Friends™

The word scorn is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

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Words containing the sequence scorn

Words with scorn in them (4 words)

Words that end with scorn (2 words)

Word Growth involving scorn

Shorter words in scorn

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Longer words containing scorn

outscorn outscorned

outscorn outscorning

outscorn outscorns

scorned outscorned

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scornful scornfulness

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scorning scorningly

scornproof

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