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Definition of Scorn |
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Scorn
Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object. An act or expression of extreme contempt. An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision. To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain. To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride. To scoff; to mock; to show contumely, derision, or reproach; to act disdainfully. Related Definitions: Act, An, And, As, At, Contemn, Contempt, Contumely, Deride, Derision, Despise, Disdain, Disregard, Expression, Extreme, From, Haughty, Hold, In, Insult, Lofty, Make, Meanness, Mock, Object, Of, Opinion, Or, Regard, Reject, Reproach, Scoff, Show, That, The, To, Treat, Unworthy, Utter, Which, With |
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Scorn Quotations
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. William Shakespeare If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it." T. S. Eliot Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. George Bernard Shaw There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. Albert Camus Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. Albert Camus The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise. Calvin Coolidge Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top. William Butler Yeats Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts. Benito Mussolini I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. Baruch Spinoza No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition. Milan Kundera |
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Scorn Translations
scorn in German is Verachtung, verachten, Hohn scorn in Italian is disprezzare, vilipendi, scherno scorn in Latin is contemptio |
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