Crossword-Solution: SCORN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scorn | n. | Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object. |
| Scorn | n. | An act or expression of extreme contempt. |
| Scorn | n. | An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision. |
| Scorn | n. | To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain. |
| Scorn | n. | To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride. |
| Scorn | v. i. | To scoff; to mock; to show contumely, derision, or reproach; to act disdainfully. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SCORN | anagram | CORNS |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
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greedy person
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Sentences with SCORN (5)
Thrice he assayd, and thrice in spite of scorn, Tears such as Angels weep, burst forth: at last Words interwove with sighs found out their way.
All this too late I learn, wretch that I am, Alas! I own it, and am proved most vile In my neglect of thee: I scorn myself.
These emotions, in fact, and its bitterest scorn besides, seemed to be the sole portion that she retained in the universal heart.
She had never had much individual affection for any of her brothers except Thor, but she had never been disloyal, never felt scorn or held grudges.
Thou com’st, indeed, 410 As a poor miserable captive thrall Comes to the place where he before had sat Among the prime in splendour, now deposed, Ejected, emptied, gazed, unpitied, shunned, A spectacle of ruin, or of scorn, To all the host of Heaven.
Quotes with SCORN (3)
That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.
Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would doubtless scorn religion as sentimental wishful thinking. Would not that same uncluttered mind also see the attempts to reconcile science and religion by disparaging the reduction of the complex to the simple as attempts guided by muddle-headed sentim…
For thy sweet love remembr'd such wealth brings That then, I scorn to change my state with kings.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 254 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).