How To Use Scorned In A Sentence

Two people were asked to perform one song each before Dr. King's closing remarks: the brilliant opera singer Marian Anderson, who did "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands," and Mahalia Jackson, the glorious gospel legend, who came outwearing a grand, flower-covered hat and sang this soaring a cappella version of the old slave spiritual "I Been 'Buked and I Been Scorned" (a song Dylan and I both knew because it was on Odetta's first album, a record each of us had learned by heart as soon as it was released). Stand And Be Counted
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
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.
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.
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.)

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
She's had enough of being the woman scorned. The Sun
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.
Several leading officers have quite openly scorned the peace talks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
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
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
I ask if being scorned by his old comrades-in-arms has saddened him.
His bad action was scorned by the public.
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!!!
Why sit here to be scorned by this unbreeched heathen?" cried Dudley. The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance
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
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. The Sun
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.
In an ungenial moment, Socrates, too, scorned them for taking fees, calling them ‘prostitutes of wisdom.’
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
Old stories that are often scorned as pure figments of the imagination have a habit of coming home to roost.
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
He has outwitted the political Opposition, scorned the result of an election and killed his defenceless compatriots. Times, Sunday Times
At the heart of her imagining is the bitterness of being scorned by worthless people who have power and money. Times, Sunday Times
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.
After professing enthusiastic support for reform of the present scorned system, ministers have gone suspiciously quiet. Times, Sunday Times
The real failure of American foreign policy in the Middle East, where we are universally scorned, is that we have not connected the dots of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and terrorist attacks against the United States. When George Meets John
Regarded as only suitable for sale in bodegas and grocery stores and primarily worn by pimply adolescents on middle-school dates, the carnation is a flower that is almost universally scorned. What in Carnation?
They were store-bought, the kind my mother would have scorned.
Adams, the farmer's son who despised slavery and practiced the kind of personal economy and plain living commonly upheld as the American way, was scorned as an aristocrat who, if he could, would enslave the common people.
A woman scorned, she refused to help him and turned down his marriage proposal.
She's a woman scorned and will do what it takes to hit him where it hurts. The Sun
At the heart of her imagining is the bitterness of being scorned by worthless people who have power and money. Times, Sunday Times
Both of them scorned the falsities of university life: the preening of dons, the careerism, the universal dullness. Times, Sunday Times
The revelations about Dewar's astounding personal wealth belie the First Minister's image as a man who scorned the finer things in life and valued frugality and simplicity.
He gained a reputation for honest in a government often scorned for corruption.
‘No, you want to go back to the bar, yell at your girlfriend and punch that bloke she was pashing,’ Adele scorned.
Left on the streets all day and scorned would you not become depressed, paranoid, turn to drink or drugs or thieve for a living?
Our heroine acts from within her situation, within the reality of women at that time, but she is never judged, scorned, or punished for her missteps.
John for his part was not backward, but gave himself the most wonderful airs of secrecy and importance, till half the parish began to think that the affairs of the nation were in his hand, and he scorned the sight of a dungfork. Lorna Doone
She scorned their views as old-fashioned.
They find that they are continuously judged and scorned by peers and adults when they wear their uniform.
He told the guard to reassure the girl that she was not being scorned and that no one would laugh at her.
Shrewd and fiercely honest, Fanny scorned the cheapness of her newfound celebrity.
Scaife bought sporting prints, a couple of Detaille's lithographs, and an easy-chair, known to dwellers upon the Hill as a "frowst;" Kinloch hung upon his side of the wall four pretty reproductions of French engravings, and with the help of three yards of velveteen and some cheap lace he made a very passable imitation of the mantel-cover in his mother's London boudoir; John scorned velveteen, lace, "frowsts," and French engravings. The Hill A Romance of Friendship
The world's Platts have always looked on reformers as political aberrations to be scorned as "bleeding hearts" and "do-gooders" out of touch with reality, if not actually tetched in the head, and therefore dangerous to political stability. The Performer
Ambubalarum collegia, &c. Trimalcionis topanta in Petronius recta in caelum abiit, went right to heaven: a, base quean, [2235] thou wouldst have scorned once in thy misery to have a penny from her; and why? modio nummos metiit, she measured her money by the bushel. Anatomy of Melancholy
The ESPA made an effort to include art forms like comics and zines specifically because they've been scorned by the mainstream.
Now he knows how a scorned wife feels. The Sun
Traditionally, the high-minded have scorned public drinking as a bit uncouth, while pop counter-culturalists have viewed it as a bit uncool.
‘When we called for international action, we were often scorned, disregarded or disappointed,’ Archbishop Desmond Tutu recently recalled.
I even kind of pitied him -- he was so scorned and slighted; and for all he'd a bold look about him, as if he were not ashamed, he seemed pining and shrunk. Sexton's Hero
He plays scorned lover Jed with an untempered delicacy and spidery creepiness, while the antihero is the epitome of controlled frustration.
CEO's who were celebrating when the market was soaring are now being scorned by investors and investigated as well.
Several leading officers have quite openly scorned the peace talks.
We felt justified in doubting it, and looked forward, with cruel curiosity I admit, to the moment when this renowned and universally admired beauty would be called on to throw aside her veil axed reveal the highly praised features which had been so openly scorned for the sake of one whose chief claims to regard lay in her great wealth. The Filigree Ball
Aristocratic employers generally scorned laboursaving appliances, which meant maids had to scrub and sweep for hours unaided. Times, Sunday Times
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, indeed. The Sun
She's a woman scorned and will do what it takes to hit him where it hurts. The Sun
Hogeland's idea was scorned or ignored in the larger, more prosperous metropolitan centers in the 1890s.
Hitler's orders completely contravened international laws, which he scorned.
But he hadn't banked on the fury of a woman scorned. The Sun
Just suffice it to say that I have stood where you stand now - scorned by family members, labeled a black sheep.
I'm now deeply grateful for the teaching I once scorned.
Dyed crass colors and sold in delis, the flower is almost universally scorned. What in Carnation?
But now it turns out that on the other epaulet was perched the principled figure of Taylor Branch, not at all claiming to be a harp-strummer himself but insistently reminding his old friend that there were better angels in politics and humanity whose claims should not be scorned. What Was Bill Thinking?
Initially they scorned the notion of accepting ads.
By that time the Republican President was a whippersnapper named Teddy Roosevelt, whose imperialism Twain scorned (he called TR a Tom Sawyer type). The Atlantic | July/August 2001 | Mark Twain's Reconstruction | Blount Jr.
It occurred to her that this was the pleasure of a man who scorned to assume more than the briefest fragment of futurity. THE ONLY GAME
We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation.
In her scrolls, fragments of words are combined with fragments of images, so that the idea of a single reading or truth is scorned.
She scorned the view that inflation was already beaten.
The only magazine he subscribed to, he said, wasScientific American, a publication that I had previously scorned as the trade journal of pre-med students and Nobel Prize winners. Where Do You Get Poetic Inspiration?
He scorned all modern appliances for shooting, such as telescopic sights or automatic rifles; he invariably used a short double-barrelled rifle, and his exceptionally keen sight rendered glasses unnecessary. Im Weltkriege. English
Bentham scorned the French Revolution and the very idea of “rights,” but he shared its disaffection with the old social order and advanced his own equali - tarian doctrine with his principle that, in planning reform on utilitarian lines, each should count for one and none for more than one. EQUALITY
Feeling scorned, Melissa had planned to flee yet another meeting in order to avoid an embarrassing run-in with Jon-Marc.
Instead he should be "peached" by all the scorned women in the state until he cries and apologizes for being a scoundrel. South Carolina panel votes against impeaching Sanford
It was his idea that all new Chelsea signings should have to sing a song in the dressing room on their first day, usually while being scorned and pelted with rubbish.
The foreign minister was particularly scorned for going to the opera on Sunday night and not turning up for work until 31 hours after the earthquake.
He scorned the government's record in dealing with crime.
Button mashing is generally scorned by hard-core gamers, but I argue that it's actually a valid learning technique.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
She developed a reputation for promiscuity, and became known as a scorned woman, who bathed naked in the India's Bandit Queen
Johnson would have none of it: he scorned the lexicographer who deluded himself that he could ‘embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay’.
Hell hath no fury like an expert scorned. Times, Sunday Times
For centuries women like me have been derided, scorned and ostracised.
Obviously here, we have a romantic, a cuddlesome creature, probably cruelly scorned, and our sympathy goes out to her.
He scorned the government's record in dealing with crime.
Ambubalarum collegia, &c. Trimalcionis topanta in Petronius recta in caelum abiit, went right to heaven: a, base quean, [2235] thou wouldst have scorned once in thy misery to have a penny from her; and why? modio nummos metiit, she measured her money by the bushel. Anatomy of Melancholy
Now he knows how a scorned wife feels. The Sun
His campaign on her behalf caused him to be scorned, mocked and reviled. Times, Sunday Times
Zephyrus hated Hyacinthus because he scorned him, and preferred his corrival Apollo.
But that five-dollar bill was so scorned and snubbed by the ascendent truckmen that the doctor found himself smiling at his conceit that the poor, despised thing, when returned to his purse, went sneakingly into the farthest and deepest corner. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
He scorned the provisions made in the name of charity for the city's dependents.
The Security Council was disdained and scorned as irrelevant.
Hell the way I feel this moment. how I really look at anything and feel scorned how just an email prior to yours I believed him so faith fully and the one that came right after yours Ugotsoul Diary Entry
They are not second-class citizens to be scorned acrimoniously.
And Charlie Brown, turning the appellation optimist into someone sure to be scorned, because he so wants to believe and wants so much to kick that elusive football, comes charging down the field one more time, only to have the diabolical Lucy pull the ball once again, as Charlie Brown goes flying up in the air. Michael Russnow: The WGA Strike for Dummies: Why Is It Taking So Long?
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
Solitude and sadness had so emolliated Henchard that he now feared circumstances he would formerly have scorned, and he began to wish that he had not taken upon himself to arrive at such a juncture. The Mayor of Casterbridge
She should be scorned for the cankerous cretin that she is. Think Progress » Five more U.S. soldiers die in Iraq.
Divine dispensation determined to honor her in this station so that, having scorned the king's servant, she came to be coupled with the king himself and bring forth royal children.
A word scorned by a million liberal malcontents cutting off their noses to spite their collective face, considering it untrendy to stand up for a country that enshrined the very values that saddled their every high horse. Be My Enemy
While scorned by most critics, the TV show attracted as many as 60 million US viewers between 1962 and 1971.
Regarded as only suitable for sale in bodegas and grocery stores and primarily worn by pimply adolescents on middle-school dates, the carnation is a flower that is almost universally scorned. What in Carnation?
McManus scorned a second chance before Sutton flung himself headlong and only narrowly headed wide.
In good old colonial fashion, the British have always scorned their transatlantic cousins.
In those long years of Labour supremacy, the right was not merely out of office, but was anathematised and scorned.
Another vid has a woman scorned as a “brown noser” when she twists open a screw capped wine at an office party. Wine: Drunken steak and other abuses from 2010
Hill as a "frowst"; Kinloch hung upon his side of the wall four pretty reproductions of French engravings, and with the help of three yards of velveteen and some cheap lace he made a very passable imitation of the mantel-cover in his mother's London boudoir; John scorned velveteen, lace, "frowsts," and French engravings. The Hill A Romance of Friendship
She's had enough of being the woman scorned. The Sun
Like most of my feminist sisters in Paris, I scorned monogamy.
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. Paul Casts a Larger Shadow (Convention) - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
The ticket man openly scorned me for not having reviewed Goodbye Lenin!
A few months before this time, he would have scorned the idea of concealing any part of his conduct, any one of his actions, from his best friend, Mr Percival; but his pride now reconciled him to the meanness of concealment; and here, the acuteness of him feelings was to his own mind an excuse for dissimulation: so fallacious is moral instinct, unenlightened or uncontrolled by reason and religion. Belinda
Several speakers cried, and some angrily scorned Plan 2008's strategy, arguing there should be more concrete plans to diversify.
She scorned to tell a lie.
He scorned a cap, as they all did, but every morning he carefully combed his wiry, tow-coloured hair and subdued it with pomade.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
Accustomed to acerbities of criticism for their many shortcomings from her ever-pointed tongue, they marvelled the more at her semi-partnership with Jim, whom of all the population of the town she had scorned and verbally castigated most frequently. Bruvver Jim's Baby
When I got there, I fell in love with the town that I had once scorned.
As time went on new rules were drafted, pitches were developed, the games began to draw the attention of people who at one time would have scorned to be associated with them.
He weighed in the next day with a piece in which he scorned the very notion of scientific inquiry because of its inherent limitations.
But Gaddafi's information minister, Moussa Ibrahim, said late on Friday the government's military retained the upper hand in both Zawiyah and Zlitan and scorned what he described as 'bands of insurgents'. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
And his wife took care that his rich red hood, kerseymere small-clothes, and black silk stockings upon calves of dignity, were such that his congregation scorned the surgeons all the way to Beverley. Mary Anerley
Soldiers, when not needed, are scorned and underpaid; when needed, praised and still underpaid.
Another scorned major-label signee, Virginia's Clipse took to the tapes while its heralded sophomore LP NPR Topics: News
At first many politicians and industrialists scorned his findings. Times, Sunday Times
They enter a beautiful meadow, whereupon Don Quijote practices the part of a lunatic - loudly telling the gods, nymphs and dryads of the meadow of his scorned love for Dulcinea.
Hypnosis, hysterical strength and stigmata, sensory heightening, psychosomatics, telepathy -- such things are scorned in the scientific youth of civilizations, later accepted, when understanding has grown. A Circus of Hells
I mean sheesh, which is worse being scorned but respected (Bush) or being laughed at and taken as a joke (BO). Indian prime minister arrives at White House
It enjoys demonising the elected representatives of the labour movement and treats its left critics as heretics to be cast aside and scorned.
These philosophers are scorned by the obtuse for their abstruseness and abstraction, derided for their technical vocabulary, and accused of ‘scholasticism.’
They were store-bought, the kind my mother would have scorned.
Crowds gathered from the neighboring towns to gaze on the man whom they had known as a scorned and abused slave, and who now appeared among them as the ambassador of a power which hitherto, indeed, they had despised, but which in their present mood they were willing to propitiate. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century
After professing enthusiastic support for reform of the present scorned system, ministers have gone suspiciously quiet. Times, Sunday Times
Left on the streets all day and scorned would you not become depressed, paranoid, turn to drink or drugs or thieve for a living?
It's not so long since he was scorned by the scientific establishment after claiming he could produce a map of the human genome faster than anyone else.
Scorned by society, forced into retirement or seconded into secret service these heroes are a dysfunctional bunch.
People he'd scorned and made to look like fools were now all silently hoping this farce would escalate. COLDHEART CANYON
Hell truly hath no fury like a mezzo scorned. Times, Sunday Times
Today, the vision of full humanhood is battered, scorned, deemed "unrealistic. The '30S
People he'd scorned and made to look like fools were now all silently hoping this farce would escalate. COLDHEART CANYON
These arrangements, based on the systematic financial raping, plundering, and pillaging of companies like GM by the labor unions through the negotiating of employee wages that are two thirds higher than the average wage, are now known as the scorned "Cadillac plans. Canada Free Press
A modern Greek tale narrates that a nereid, enamoured of a youth, and by him scorned, turned him into a snake till he should find another love as fair as she. Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series
His campaign on her behalf caused him to be scorned, mocked and reviled. Times, Sunday Times

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