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scorn 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/skôrn/,
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scorns, plural;
  1. Feel or express contempt or derision for
    • - I was routinely ridiculed and scorned by conservatives and liberals alike
  2. Reject (something) in a contemptuous way
    • - opponents scorned his offer to negotiate
  3. Refuse to do something because one is too proud
    • - at her lowest ebb, she would have scorned to stoop to such tactics
Noun
  1. The feeling or belief that someone or something is worthless or despicable; contempt
    • - I do not wish to become the object of scorn
    • - a general scorn for human life
  2. A person viewed with such feeling
    • - a scandal and a scorn to all who look on thee
  3. A statement or gesture indicating such feeling


  1. contemn: look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately"
  2. contempt: lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike; "he was held in contempt"; "the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary"
  3. contempt: open disrespect for a person or thing
  4. reject: reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances"
  5. (scorned) despised: treated with contempt
  6. (scornful) contemptuous: expressing extreme contempt
  7. Scorn is a feeling of contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
  8. Scorn is an English electronic music project. The group was formed in the early 1990s as a side project of former Napalm Death members Mick Harris and Nic Bullen (the latter as one of the founding members of the band in 1981). ...
  9. Scorn is a fictional character in the DC comics universe. He first appeared in Superman #122 in 1997 and for a time was a regular supporting character in the Superman line of comics.
  10. (The Scorned) The Scorned is a 2005 horror movie. It was the first movie cast entirely with the people from previous reality television series. The movie was filmed during the E! behind-the-scenes reality show Kill Reality.
  11. (scornful) Scorn is a feeling of contempt for someone or something; the belief that a person or thing is worthless. Crooks is scornful of Lennie because he thinks Lennie's plan is nothing more than a dream.
  12. Hold in extreme contempt another person.
  13. a feeling that one has toward something low, mean, or evil [We have nothing but scorn for a cheater].
  14. mockery, ridicule, or contempt. This concept appears in several passages in the Bible. Among the more significant is Psalm 22:7, where Jesus Christ is prophesied as One who will become the object of scorn. ...
  15. Sometimes flashing as a microexpression.  It is a combination of anger and disgust that happens by wrinkling of the nose, raising and tightening of the upper lip.  To visualize this expression think of a bad smell.