How To Use Scorn In A Sentence

Perhaps the years of abuse, ridicule and scorn make a fully grown redhead all the stronger for it. Times, Sunday Times
Oh, damn the lousy tribe of them!" cried he, beating his palm upon the table; "what's Long Davie the dempster thinking of to be letting such folk come scorning here? Doom Castle
Sometimes scorn, and the expression of scorn, is warranted. The Volokh Conspiracy » Our Own Randy Barnett Talks to Prof. Glenn Reynolds (InstaPundit) About Whether ObamaCare Is Constitutional
He scorns the idea that he has sold out to commercialism, feeling instead that it is his mission to make an art form he loves loved by others.
Terrified lest his secret be made public, and turn him into an object of scorn, he managed to sublimate these fears and transform them into the stuff of comedy.

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Music critics have often poured scorn on progressive rock for being boring, pompous and pretentious. Times, Sunday Times
Note, Scorners that laugh at what they see and hear that is above their capacity, are not proper witnesses of the wonderful works of Christ, the glory of which lies not in pomp, but in power. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
Despite this apparent initial failure, which was openly scorned by China's state media as "performance art", the boxun.com blog site asked again for what it called "strolling protests" against the ruling Communist Party at 2pm on Sunday. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
As the bambu, in the bambus safely sheltered, scorns the axe. ' Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala
Again, he pours scorn on racialist mythology but, in his steadfastly conservative way, refuses to become histrionically sanctimonious on the matter, preferring studied contempt to self-promoting outrage.
In 192 thrilling seconds, his side provided ample riposte to all of their scorn and suggestion. Times, Sunday Times
The scorn and mockery heaped on this particular law firm was astonishing. Times, Sunday Times
Was it not enough that, like the other insignia, it should be an emblem of scorn and mockery, since that was their aim?
Why, he asks, does wearing the swastika attract widespread scorn, while no one blinks at the person wearing a hammer and sickle on his baseball cap?
When the great US sportswriter George Plimpton told Muhammad Ali's trainer Angelo Dundee that the Italian heavyweight Primo Carnera used to wrap a stout rubber band round his member at night to prevent arousal, Dundee laughed scornfully. Sportsmen and their women: history's great divide
Franklin shared the family's scorn for his wife's new friends.
I think what happened is that he would have shut his mouth if they had treated him right, but he was scorned, and so he told what he knew.
He had by a second will bequeathed all his possessions to the Church, reserving in them a life-interest for his virtual wife; and when the cousinry swooped down on what they thought their prey, Madame Mulhausen could receive them and their condolences with the indignant scorn which their greed and cruelty deserved. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
He was not thinking of the girl beside him; only something seemed to swell and grow and swell within his heart; it was all the torture of his days, weary hopes and weary disappointment, scorn rankling and throbbing, and the thought "I had rather call the devils my brothers and live with them in hell. The Hill of Dreams
The only thing worse than a woman scorned is a mother whose child is in danger. Sarah Connor Chronicles Set for Jan Premiere : SF Universe - SF Universe is your Science Fiction central. From SciFi television to movies to books and more. All the latest news, reviews and insights from SciFi experts.
Curly," answered Tom, with scorn, "what you call your brains is only a oroide imitation of a dollar watch. Heart's Desire
He scorned prudence in moderation at all times, and his behaviour, when the wave of Revolution at last carried him to power, gave point to the taunt of Thiers -- "c'est un fou furieux. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)
Serving as an admonition to all ladies and gentlewomen, not to mock or scorne gentlemen-Schollers, when they make meanes of love to them: Except they intend to seeke their owne shame, by disgracing them The Decameron
She would never have stood by while he became a figure of scorn and derision.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
Henry Geldzahler of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a pouting brat with anxious, twisty hands – "Oh, so you want to be a professional," his scornful denial of her appeal for help. Alice Neel: Painted Truths; In the Company of Alice
Years later, at the 2000 Vancouver International Film Festival, I sat with many of the same people to see the premiere of Scorn, which re-enacts the events surrounding the murders.
The part I don't get is why the really dreadful singers set themselves up for scorn and mockery - and they have to know that's what they're in for.
In fact, the only laughter he had heard from her was either scornful or sarcastic, and was usually directed at him.
She's had enough of being the woman scorned. The Sun
O rare outgate from the scorn of the causeway to the smelting-house of 'Him who hath His fire in Zion!' Samuel Rutherford
The one was a strict observer of the laws of propriety and an almost exclusive frequenter of fashionable society; the other, on the contrary, had an unmitigated scorn for the so - called proprieties and so-called good society. Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
He looked very doubtful when I asked certain questions and laughed me to scorn when I gave my verdict.
He opened the door with a scornful look on his face.
I believe that there is no way he can protect his family from the cruelty of the scorn and ridicule of those who will inevitably tell them in no incertain terms that they believe Mr. Schiavo is a murderer. Yet another new Terri Schiavo thread
a democratic scorn for bloated dukes and lords
And whereas that some of those who bear this auld and honourable name may take scorn that it ariseth from the tilling of the ground, quhilk men account a slavish occupation, yet we ought to honour the pleugh and spade, seeing we all derive our being from our father Adam, whose lot it became to cultivate the earth, in respect of his fall and transgression. Chronicles of the Canongate
He was neither a prude nor a Puritan, but he was scornful of self-indulgence, and though he earned a reputation as the champion of the poor, it was only of the deserving and never of the idle.
He is scornful of modern gurus, or gu-RUS as he mockingly inflects the word, and tells tour pros, ‘If they can't beat you, they've got nothing to teach you.’
Margarita, as beautifull as the best: but yet so peevish, scornefull, and fantasticall, that she disdained any good advice given her; neyther could any thing be done, to cause her contentment; which absurd humors were highly displeasing to her husband: but in regard he knew not how to helpe it, constrainedly he did endure it. The Decameron
Imagine sacrificing your son for someone else's sake, and not getting any credit, any appreciation for it, even being scorned and mocked for it.
That effeminate creature in the 7-11 you scorn is suffering the consequences of other mens sins, you only lower yourself if you abuse that person because of your own false perceptions. Tools and Pocketknives
The historical school mistaking what men have done for what men should do and, while often missing the full induction of the past, scornfully rejecting as empty apriorism deductive reasoning from the nature of man, presents a materialistic, evolutionary, and positivistic view of human society, which in no way appeals to sane reason. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
And first, I am very sensible how much the gentlemen of wit and pleasure are apt to murmur, and be choked at the sight of so many daggle-tailed parsons that happen to fall in their way, and offend their eyes; but at the same time, these wise reformers do not consider what an advantage and felicity it is for great wits to be always provided with objects of scorn and contempt, in order to exercise and improve their talents, and divert their spleen from falling on each other, or on themselves, especially when all this may be done without the least imaginable danger to their persons. An Argument against Abolishing Christianity
So lonesome that there were times when life looked absolutely worthless; when the blue devils made him their plaything, and he saw Billy Louise looking scornfully upon him and loving some other man better; when he saw his name blackened by the suspicion that he was a rustler -- preying upon his neighbors 'cattle; when he saw Buck Olney laughing in derision of his mercy and fixing fresh evidence against him to confound him utterly. The Ranch at the Wolverine
Because they cannot ride a horse, which every clown can do, salute and court a gentlewoman, carve at table, cringe and make congees, which every common swasher can do … they are laughed to scorn and accounted silly fools by our gallants. Inside Higher Ed
Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
Several leading officers have quite openly scorned the peace talks.
My husband would scornfully call me an emo girl trapped in the body of a grown woman.
So does he respect the press and media, or does he secretly scorn them?
I was wearing gumboots and a singlet, and thought I would draw scornful gazes towards such disheveled attire.
He has outwitted the political Opposition, scorned the result of an election and killed his defenceless compatriots. Times, Sunday Times
If you had told me when I was the tender age of 15 that I would have this kind of life I would have laughed and scorned you.
Tears pricked Melissa's eyes at the scorn in Marsey's voice and for a moment she looked as if she would crumble.
Or was I the only one dying to see what Den's mistress Kate did with her barnet after Chrissie, the woman scorned, hacked off her hair.
Oh, don't look so chopfallen!" he went on, scornfully, when Paul blinked. The Spinner's Book of Fiction
No one can publicly admit to seeing the bright side without inviting ridicule and scorn. Times, Sunday Times
Good, as goodness might be measured in their particular class, hard-working for meagre wages and scorning the sale of self for easier ways, nervously desirous for some small pinch of happiness in the desert of existence, and facing a future that was a gamble between the ugliness of unending toil and the black pit of more terrible wretchedness, the way whereto being briefer though better paid. Chapter 6
He spoke of us scornfully as raw recruits .
But one young female trainee poured scorn on the idea. Times, Sunday Times
Not quite six feet tall, he had probably been handsome until something ugly inside reached maximum levels and seeped out, eroding him until only an expression of scorn remained. Arcane Circle
Taking on Garvey's mantle, Marley turned increasingly to Africa as his fame grew, addressing apartheid with the same withering scorn as American artists like Stevie Wonder and Gil Scott Heron.
As the barking of a dog, I securely contemn those malicious and scurrile obloquies, flouts, calumnies of railers and detractors; I scorn the rest. Anatomy of Melancholy
At first Berkeley poured scorn on those who adhere to the concept of infinitesimal. maintaining that the use of infinitesimals in deriving mathematical results is illusory, and is in fact eliminable. Continuity and Infinitesimals
But I have refined everything away by this time — anger, indignation, scorn itself. Nothing left but disgust.
Moreover, virtually every target of the film is legitimate and deserving of scorn and derision.
Gerard Way stares me right in the eye, speaking with a slightly bitter snap in his tone that is only managed by those scorned by elitists in the past.
The teachers were very old-fashioned, treating any new ideas with contempt and scorn.
Wilfred used the word Frenchmen with the greatest scorn. The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune
Even the junior senator from North Carolina felt obliged to express her scorn for these malefactors of great wealth.
It's hardly standard practice for a hostile takeover, where it is normal to pour as much scorn and vitriol on the target's management as possible.
the name was a by-word of scorn and opprobrium throughout the city
Rebel Socialist MPs poured scorn on their leader. Times, Sunday Times
-- And then I have a queer humour o 'my ain, that sets a strolling beggar weel eneugh, whase word naebody minds -- but ye ken Sir Arthur has odd sort o' ways -- and I wad be jesting or scorning at them -- and ye wad be angry, and then I wad be just fit to hang mysell. The Antiquary — Complete
Then, of all things, she'd taken up spinning and needlework and all those feminine accomplishments she'd always scorned in favor of roping and riding.
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
Mr. Ruskin bade men "go to Nature in all singleness of heart, and walk with her laboriously and trustingly, having no other thought but how best to penetrate her meaning, _rejecting nothing, selecting nothing and scorning nothing_;" and Mr. Hamerton was literally obeying him when he exiled himself for five years in a hut on an island in a bleak Scotch lake to learn faithfully to portray the shores of that single lake. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878
Or an ungodly witness is one that profanely and atheistically witnesses against religion and godliness, whose instructions seduce from the words of knowledge (v. 27); such a one scorns judgment, laughs at the terrors of the Lord, mocks at that fear, Job xv. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Even in fairly recent history the theory of tectonic plates beneath the earth's crust was discounted and scorned before it could eventually be proven.
Public indifference to politics has given way to ridicule, contempt and scorn. Times, Sunday Times
His poetry was the object of scorn.
Sir Henry was able to scorn convention because he had turned his back on the world.
And above all, he has replaced his father's courtesy and good graces with an almost proud rudeness and scorn for others.
hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
The first five were friends from school teasing him in fun or scorning him with contempt.
Public indifference to politics has given way to ridicule, contempt and scorn. Times, Sunday Times
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. The Sun
After professing enthusiastic support for reform of the present scorned system, ministers have gone suspiciously quiet. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps the years of abuse, ridicule and scorn make a fully grown redhead all the stronger for it. Times, Sunday Times
The child sees this title laughed to scorn before he knows it is Emile
Just another scenario where caring for someone close to me gets me nothing by contempt, scorn and hate in return.
I was certainly not the first to be pranked this way - there are a slew of cases of angry pharmacists, disgruntled neighbors, and scorned ex-boyfriends using sites like Craigslist to recruit unwitting accomplices in their acts of revenge - I coined the term "crowdsourcing revenge" to describe the practice. Forbes.com: News
Some lecturers have poured scorn on the campaign. Times, Sunday Times
I ask if being scorned by his old comrades-in-arms has saddened him.
Dealers would not show him, as he had a disconcerting habit of giving his paintings away for free, and he openly showed his scorn for them. Times, Sunday Times
Progressive rock has always been an easy target for the music critics ready to pour scorn on it for being boring, pompous and pretentious. Times, Sunday Times
You wonder what else the club can do to bring fresh scorn upon its head. The Sun
And I do think — required or not — participation will always be higher if sorting is not required. scorn, San Francisco Signs Mandatory Recycling & Composting Laws | Inhabitat
I had taught him well; he showed no respect or scorn for the royal family.
I had to face the drunken tramps and the scorn of those wannabe policemen and women: the ticket inspectors.
His bad action was scorned by the public.
To think how I used to scorn people who were always complaining of the cold. Times, Sunday Times
Having baffled them all, she laughed scornfully, flung deceit to the winds, then hurried straight to the "fastness," and there uttered the tribal call. Flowing Gold
He introduces a song of heart-warming beauty ‘Scorn Not His Simplicity’ and dedicates it to every proud parent of a disabled child.
Tartars be most insolent, and they scorne and set nought by all other noble and ignoble persons whatsoeuer. The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
What, again, shall be said of the two following, where Coriolanus snaps off his fierce scorn of the multitude? ” “What's the matter, you dissentious rogues, Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
The first five were friends from school teasing him in fun or scorning him with contempt.
She scorns his gallant language, and constantly rebuffs his advances.
Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings.
He was conspicuous among the young men of his standing for the forwardness with which he took his side against "Tractarianism," and the vehemence of his dislike of it, and for the almost ostentatious and defiant prominence which he gave to the convictions and social habits of his school He expressed his scorn and disgust at the "donnishness," the coldness, the routine, the want of heart, which was all that he could see at Oxford out of the one small circle of his friends. Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890
It was the supreme anthem of renunciation, of scorn, of derision at the pretensions of the ungifted and the insensitive.
And whereas that some of those who bear this auld and honourable name may take scorn that it ariseth from the tilling of the ground, quhilk men account a slavish occupation, yet we ought to honour the pleugh and spade, seeing we all derive our being from our father Adam, whose lot it became to cultivate the earth, in respect of his fall and transgression. Chronicles of the Canongate
I must work an interest in her, either through love or through fear; and who knows but I may yet reap the sweetest and best revenge for her former scorn? — that were indeed a masterpiece of courtlike art! Kenilworth
Public scorn needs to grow. Times, Sunday Times
In a shocking reversal of the traditional "woman scorned" formula, it was Pugach who came unglued when Riss broke up with him -- and the subsequent fallout made headlines across the country. Spring 2009 Film Series!!!
And are we to suffer the loss of our cimelia by your neglect, besides being exposed to the scorn and censure of our lieges, and of the foreign ambassadors?” The Fortunes of Nigel
Oddly enough, in contrast to Mr Anonymous's (teeth achingly-patronising) suggestion that rebellion against Empire leads inevitably to children growing up in a meaningless, nihilistic world (the children! think of the children!), I'm quite happy to judge myself by the accumulated affection and/or scorn that I manage to evoke from the people that matter to me. THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FOUR
Why sit here to be scorned by this unbreeched heathen?" cried Dudley. The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance
Who, but an impious scorner, dares thus strive with his Maker, and mutilate HIS IMAGE, and blaspheme the Holy One, who saith, "_Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of the least of these, ye did it unto_ ME. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
The Redskins coach was the subject of scorn and ridicule before his team lost to the Lions, but the setback in Motown only racheted up the heat. NFL Replay: Declining skills at the root of T.O.'s slow start
His complicity, if proved, would be a sensation, but even his critics poured scorn on the accusation.
Scorning the help of the secret service stooges following them, she pulled the car into a service station and told William to leave it all to her.
Some scorn those who get soppy about horses. Times, Sunday Times
The scorning of the tribes is an offense to the natural order in the minds of many there.
Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
We work toward a movement in which all cereal chromosomes will be united, not only in one New Cereal (pompously designated "the first man-made cereal") but also in other new cereals besides Triticale such as Hordecale (amphidiploid of barley and rye), Triticordeum (amphidiploid of wheat and barley) and many more, not scorning any contribution, be it of chromosomes or only a few genes found in countless other gramineous strains, that will prove to be of undeniable Value to the betterment of many cereals. Chapter 12
In the Washington administration, the Whiskey rebels raised their own flag; in the Adams administration, Virginia questioned federal law and readied the armory at Richmond for self-defense; Gouverneur Morris, the peglegged aristocrat who drafted the Constitution in 1787, scornfully called, a quarter of a century later, for a secession of the north, even at the risk of civil war. America's First Dynasty
Labour poured scorn on the Tory claim to be the party of law and order.
Bessey encountered a spectrum of incomprehension, scorn, puzzlement and good will.
But he fails to acknowledge the equally unreasonable scorn heaped on the anti-capitalists' ideas by conventional politicians.
The pleasure he takes in humbling the proud and exalting those of low degree (v. 6): The Lord lifts up the meek, who abase themselves before him, and whom men trample on; but the wicked, who conduct themselves insolently towards God and scornfully towards all mankind, who lift up themselves in pride and folly, he casteth down to the ground, sometimes by very humbling providences in this world, at furthest in the day when their faces shall be filled with everlasting shame. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
These have a narcotic ( "to benumb" G), or analgesic ( "no pain" G), effect and are not scorned even in modern medical practice. The Human Brain
Nay the very mode of riding: for now no man on a level with his age but will trot a l'Anglaise, rising in the stirrups; scornful of the old sitfast method, in which, according to Shakspeare, The French Revolution
These twentieth century cannibals deserve the greatest scorn and contempt from all workers and humanitarians!
And though most students may pour scorn on those who peel themselves out of bed at some ungodly hour to do the bidding of some midget cox, one must admire their strength.
When once deceived, however, or undeceived about the character of a person, he became utterly incredulous, and he saluted this fine speech of my lord's with a sardonical, inward laughter, preserving his gravity, however, and scarce allowing any of his scorn to appear in his words. The Virginians
Women scorn Clint and Clint scorns women, writing misogynist rants under the byline ‘Yellow Dog’.
It's patently designed to pour scorn on the English judicial process and courtroom procedure as unreliable systems, leading guiltless men to end up in prison.
It was not "born so high: its aiery buildeth in the cedar's top, and dallies with the wind, and scorns the sun. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution
Joséphine's upper lip wrinkles with almost genteel scorn when asked about her circumstances.
It was a phrase that sabered the spider-webs of logical refinement, and held them up scornfully on the point. The Big Bow Mystery
I feigned scorn and indignation but really I was just too scared to apply myself. 21 DOG YEARS
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. The Sun
Nevertheless, to recur; I cannot but observe, that these tame spirits stand a poor chance in a fairly offensive war with such of us mad fellows as are above all law, and scorn to sculk behind the hypocritical screen of reputation. Clarissa Harlowe
Yet a populist ethic scorning them as money grubbers who mystified the law while profiting from the miseries of others has persisted.
In 1972, for the usual teen reasons, I scorned my parentally approved room and set up a base camp in a narrow basement corridor that led to the downstairs bathroom and a storage closet.
What dares the slave come hither, cover'd with an antic face, to fleer and scorn at our solemnity?
In an ungenial moment, Socrates, too, scorned them for taking fees, calling them ‘prostitutes of wisdom.’
His poetry was the object of scorn.
Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
They may scorn cash now; but let some months go by, and no perspective promise of it to them, and then this same quiescent cash all at once mutinying in them, this same cash would soon cashier Ahab. Moby Dick; or the Whale
Her sultry good looks, airy insouciance and withering scorn would have made me her instant slave.
He looked her up and down and Faith could see the scorn in his face as he took in her dishevelled appearance.
Alas! that love is certainly very lukewarm which can be extinguished by so trifling an offence; that scornful rigour, which is displayed so readily, sufficiently shows to me the depth of her affection. The Love-Tiff
I think scorn to sigh: methinks I should outswear Cupid. Love’s Labour ’s Lost
Zoë's expectations are rewarded at sixteen, when her mother meets, through the scorned cousins, the Prince Charming — for Zoë still thinks in storybook terms — who is to rescue them both. The Mistress of Gloom
Outside the towns in the West there are few of what _you_ would call gentlefolk," said he, with just the faintest emphasis of good-natured scorn for English prejudice; "nor are there any 'country houses' as you understand the name in England. Lady Betty Across the Water
Still, such people are base indeed; they fornicate against thee, for they love the transitory mockeries of temporal things and the filthy gain which begrimes the hand that grabs it; they embrace the fleeting world and scorn thee, who abidest and invitest us to return to thee and who pardonest the prostituted human soul when it does return to thee. Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
Her brow furrowed and her scorning frown deepened as she glowered at him angrily.
Euphemism can be used in English to comfort, tolerate, deceive, construct, even iron and scorn.
Old stories that are often scorned as pure figments of the imagination have a habit of coming home to roost.
Such as are openly abusive: The scorner, who gives ill-language to every body, takes a pleasure in affronting people and reflecting upon them, is an abomination to men; none that have any sense of honour and virtue will care to keep company with him. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Charles Dickens story" niggled away at me and gradually the notion evolved that maybe I could write something from the point of view of the scorned wife, a woman about whose thoughts and feelings relatively little is known. A Conversation with Gaynor Arnold, author of Girl in a Blue Dress
The heterogeneous triflings which now, I am very sorry to say, occupy so much of our time, will be neglected; fashion's votaries will silently fall off; dishonest exertions for rank in society will be scorned; extravagance in toilet will be detested; that meager and worthless pride of station will be forgotten; the honest earnings of dependents will be paid; popular demagogues crushed; impostors unpatronized; true genius sincerely encouraged; and, above all, pawned integrity redeemed! History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
With blazing and scornful eyes she fairly withered him by demanding whatever he meant by speaking to respectable people that way.
Mens conscia recti" will support us under many trials; but it does not furnish armor of proof against the "poor man's scorn, the proud man's contumely. The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner
He has outwitted the political Opposition, scorned the result of an election and killed his defenceless compatriots. Times, Sunday Times
Deronda, inclined by nature to take the side of those on whom the arrows of scorn were falling, could not help replying to Pash's outfling, and said -- Daniel Deronda
The rhyme is scarring, like the mark of a brand, and it encapsulates the scorn that underlay the colonial occupation.
These young men (together with the students of sciences) comport themselves towards the sober citizen pretty much as the German bursch towards the philister, or as the military man, during the empire, did to the pékin: -- from the height of their poverty they look down upon him with the greatest imaginable scorn -- a scorn, I think, by which the citizen seems dazzled, for his respect for the arts is intense. The Paris Sketch Book
Clearly, we've got a long way to go to bridge the gap between scorning the environmental despoilers and warmly embracing the eco-friendly. How Deep Is Your Eco-Love? Environmental Values Important in Dating and Mating Survey Says
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
Armed with the prestige and filled with the scornful overbearingness of the conquering nation, they have the feelings inspired by absolute power without its sense of responsibility. Representative Government
His poor, mistreated will that he had been holding up to the scorn of himself and his friends, stood before him innocent, and his judgment walked off to prison with the unconfinable imp, imagination, dancing in mocking glee beside him. This Side of Paradise
The more I have come to feel this way the more I've tried not to express scorn for things that do not catch my attention but that obviously mean a great deal to others.
I followed, almost unaware of the ticklishness of the exploit to a tyro, so buoyed up was I by her example and by my scorn of the weaklings for'ard. CHAPTER XXXIV
At the heart of her imagining is the bitterness of being scorned by worthless people who have power and money. Times, Sunday Times
Before we permit democratic institutions to subject an offender to ridicule, scorn, and humiliation, we have to ask whether this kind of punishment comports with evolving standards of decency and the dignity of humankind.
The two old ladies breakfasted in bed every morning, went out for drives at eleven and three o'clock, ( "ambles," Miles called them in scornful reference to the pace of the sleek old horses), retired to their rooms for naps after lunch, ate a hearty dinner at eight, and settled down for the night at ten o'clock. Betty Trevor
He understood enough about psychology to realize that in order for any group to function properly, there had to be a focus for their scorn. THE LAST TEMPTATION
I put up a link recently to one of his articles about how business, profit and commerce generally seem to be decried and scorned by the intelligentsia.
He spoke with scorn of the "rights of women," their demand for the suffrage, and the _cohue_ of female authors, expressing himself in terms of ridiculous disparagement of writers so eminent as George Sand and George Eliot; but he strenuously advocated the claim of women to a recognised medical education. Thomas Carlyle
The Bower is biggit on the verra march line, 'she explained,' an 'the ben is ower on the Scots side whaur we intercommune,' and Meg, with her arms akimbo and her mouth on the grin, contemplated her enemy in scornful triumph. Border Ghost Stories
Progressive rock has always been an easy target for the music critics ready to pour scorn on it for being boring, pompous and pretentious. Times, Sunday Times
Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
His step-mother accused him of loitering, of scrimshanking, of scornfully dishing up half-plates of food - more than he had earned, she sneered.
After professing enthusiastic support for reform of the present scorned system, ministers have gone suspiciously quiet. Times, Sunday Times
Whether online or off, the kind of accessible and widely read work that brings an academic public recognition is likely to draw the scorn and suspicion of his colleagues.
Remove our legal right to heap scorn, and there is no reason not to do it at all. Times, Sunday Times
Ajax, and piercing through the folds of the clypei septemplicis with the poisonous shafts of his scorn. The Paris Sketch Book
The convict population spoke of him as "that — — Frere," and registered vows of vengeance against him, which he laughed — in his bluffness — to scorn. For the term of his natural life
They are openly scornful of the new plans.
The wave, as has been described, is a concrete with an upward and a downward movement united; but its last constituent is that which most affects the ear and leaves upon it the stronger impression, and hence, especially if it be given with a wide interval, _its dominant characteristic will be that of the second movement_; for example, if the second movement be upward, the wave may express interrogation mingled with surprise or scorn; if the second movement be downward, the wave may express astonishment mingled with indignation. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
Sae baith skaith an 'scorn ha'e come down upon me. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century
Margarita, as beautifull as the best: but yet so peevish, scornefull, and fantasticall, that she disdained any good advice given her; neyther could any thing be done, to cause her contentment; which absurd humors were highly displeasing to her husband: but in regard he knew not how to helpe it, constrainedly he did endure it. The Decameron
Still she scorns the producers for excluding a black presence in a film, which she says was ‘meant to restore America's sense of comity, joint endeavor, and high moral purpose.’
He at once covets and scorns material comforts - and both envies and despises those who enjoy them.
In spite of his more serious subjects of distress, Tressilian could not help feeling that he, with his riding-suit, however handsome it might be, made rather an unworthy figure among these “fierce vanities,” and the rather because he saw that his deshabille was the subject of wonder among his own friends, and of scorn among the partisans of Leicester. Kenilworth

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