scorning
present participle ofscorn
scorn
verb[T]
uk/skɔːn/us/skɔːrn/to show scorn for someone or something:
So does herespectthepressandmedia, or does hesecretlyscorn them?
You scorned all mysuggestions.
torefuseadviceor anofferbecause you are tooproud:
She scorned all myoffersofhelp.
Treating as unimportant
- blow
- blowsomething/someoneoff
- brush
- brushsomeone/somethingaside
- chopped liver
- damn
- denigrate
- denigration
- laugh
- laughsomethingoff
- leavesomethingat the dooridiom
- look down onsomeone
- minoritize
- never
- shrug
- shrugsomethingoff
- skate over/aroundsomething
- sniff atsomething
- sweepsomethingaside
- wave
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Examplesofscorning
scorning
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Whenever users tried to download the song, they heard thisscorningvoiceover instead.
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We shall go onscorningdisappointments or rebuffs until we get there.
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The best way to deal with that challenge is not byscorningpeople but by helping them.
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It is no goodscorningthe association of peoples and languages, because they feel these things deeply.
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So let us set our sights high and,scorningmere conservation of the present situation, be content with nothing less than positive improvement.
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I wonder if it is not the longer imagination which,scorningthe criticisms of some of his friends, has kept the country safe financially in these difficult years.
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It is no use ourscorningthe fact that we cannot sell goods to people in other parts of the world who cannot pay for them.
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In the past few years we have seen the spectacle of a once radical partyscorningradicalism and affecting the theories of defunct and old-fashioned economists.
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She turned him into a woodpecker forscorningher love.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Scorningthe cave map created by the spiders, they send in their own troops.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the lyrics, the speaker addresses a girl who isscorninghim because he has nothing.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If anything, he isscorningthe self-coronation of lesser funk royals and inviting his fickle public to spurn him if it dare.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He also never tries to escape from a fight or use trickery to win, believing that doing so is cowardly andscorninganyone who uses such tactics.
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- hand-me-down
- hand off
- handoff
- hand-off
- hand-of-god
- hand-on
- hand-operated
- hand-operated
- handout
- hand-out
- handover
- hand-over
- hand over fist
- hand-over-fist
- hand-picked
- handpicked
- hand-picked
- hand-pollination
- hand-pollination
- handprint
- have-a-butcher-s
- have-a-card-up-sleeve
- have a card up your sleeve
- have-a-card-up-your-sleeve
- have a care