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单词 scorn
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scorn
noun[U]
uk
/skɔːn/us
/skɔːrn/
a verystrongfeelingof norespectfor someone or something that youthinkisstupidor has novalue:
轻视，鄙视
Shehas nothing butscornforthe newgenerationofpoliticians.她对新一代政客只有鄙视。
Why do you alwayspour/heapscornon(=criticizeseverelyandunfairly)mysuggestions?你为什么总是对我的建议嗤之以鼻？
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Treating as unimportant
  • blow
  • blowsomething/someoneoff
  • brushsomeone/somethingaside
  • chopped liver
  • damn
  • denigrate
  • denigration
  • front
  • laugh
  • laughsomethingoff
  • leavesomethingat the dooridiom
  • look down onsomeone
  • minoritize
  • never
  • shrug
  • shrugsomethingoff
  • skate over/aroundsomething
  • sniff atsomething
  • sweepsomethingaside
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scorn
verb[T]
uk
/skɔːn/us
/skɔːrn/
to show scorn for someone or something:
轻视，鄙视
So does herespectthepressandmedia, or does hesecretlyscorn them?他究竟是尊重报社和媒体，还是暗地里蔑视他们？
You scorned all mysuggestions.你对我所有的建议都嗤之以鼻。
torefuseadviceor anofferbecause you are tooproud:
轻蔑地拒绝；不屑接受
She scorned all myoffersofhelp.她不屑接受我的任何帮助。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Treating as unimportant
  • blow
  • blowsomething/someoneoff
  • brushsomeone/somethingaside
  • chopped liver
  • damn
  • denigrate
  • denigration
  • front
  • laugh
  • laughsomethingoff
  • leavesomethingat the dooridiom
  • look down onsomeone
  • minoritize
  • never
  • shrug
  • shrugsomethingoff
  • skate over/aroundsomething
  • sniff atsomething
  • sweepsomethingaside
  • wave
See more results »

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Refusing & rejecting
(Definition ofscornfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

scorn| American Dictionary

scorn
noun[U]
us
/skɔrn/
astrongfeelingthat someone or something is of little or noworthanddeservesnorespect:
Thesecountriesdeserveourrespect, not the scorn of apolitician.

scornful

adjectiveus
/ˈskɔrn·fəl/
a scornfullaugh/look
scorn
verb[T]
us
/skɔrn/
totreatwith agreatlackofrespect, or torefusesomething because youthinkit iswrongor notacceptable:
He wasscornedby hisclassmatesfor hisbadbehavior.
(Definition ofscornfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofscorn

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The boundary of wretched practitioners and refined doctors is again transgressed, and she even scorns the insufficiency of scientific knowledge.
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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.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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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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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He would have scorned to destroy fish with poison or explosives.
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Civil liberties, trade union freedom and the freedom of expression continue to be scorned.
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The conservatives have scorned this as being what they call a watered-down version of the traditional concept of civil human rights.
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I come to another more general thing which scorns to be occurring.
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The best way to deal with that challenge is not by scorning people but by helping them.
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We scorned them because they did not have the skills that we thought that we had.
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We were scorned when we said that ways could be found of choosing the infrastructure in which investment could be placed without increasing inflation.
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I think these things ought to be said, since this enterprise is now being scorned and ridiculed and its essential service belittled.
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No one has mentioned what scorns to me to be the kernel of this pro- blem.
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