SCORN in a Sentence

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1. An object of scorn or derision.
2. His poetry was the object of scorn.
3. The artist looked at her with scorn.
4. You've no right to scorn a poor girl.
5. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCORN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
scorn
 n.  extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard
Classic Sentence: (103 in 7 pages)
1  The house negroes of the County considered themselves superior to white trash, and their unconcealed scorn stung him, while their more secure position in life stirred his envy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Her weapons of scorn, coldness and abuse blunted in her hands, for nothing she could say would shame him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  The two measured each other for a moment, but Lily still saw her opponent through a blur of scorn that made all other considerations indistinct.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
4  She drew back from him with a desperate assumption of scorn.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
5  She had rejected Rosedale's suggestion with a promptness of scorn almost surprising to herself: she had not lost her capacity for high flashes of indignation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
6  It was not the wind at her back, it was the thrust of Bjornstam's scorn which carried her through town.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  In his fiery eyes of scorn and triumph, you then saw Ahab in all his fatal pride.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 124. The Needle.
8  "Oh, you think you know--" began the loud soldier with scorn.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
9  Furthermore, he was much afraid that some arrow of scorn might lay him mentally low before he could raise his protecting tale.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
10  As he recalled their terror-struck faces he felt a scorn for them.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
11  Some arrows of scorn that had buried themselves in his heart had generated strange and unspeakable hatred.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
12  The woman took no notice of these taunts, but walked on, with the same expression of angry scorn, as if she heard nothing.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
13  She picked very fast and very clean, and with an air of scorn, as if she despised both the work and the disgrace and humiliation of the circumstances in which she was placed.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
14  A glance like sheet-lightning suddenly flashed from those black eyes; and, facing about, with quivering lip and dilated nostrils, she drew herself up, and fixed a glance, blazing with rage and scorn, on the driver.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
15  Cassy, with proud scorn, declared she would go to the field.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  The artist looked at her with scorn.
2  She was unable to hide the scorn in her voice.
3  She has nothing but scorn for the new generation of politicians.
4  She was treated with scorn and ridicule by her colleagues when she applied for the job.
5  Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
6  His poetry was the object of scorn.
7  You've no right to scorn a poor girl.
8  Of course this time the object of their scorn is a representative of the real America that Democrats pretend to represent.
9  Mr. Putin poured scorn on the plans to build a new missile shield in Eastern Europe.
10  An object of scorn or derision.
11  Looking askance at her questioner, she displayed her scorn.
12  He gave a scornful laugh at my proposal.
13  We are scornful of the forces of convention.
14  Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
15  His bad action was scorned by the public.