What is another word for scorns?

Pronunciation: [skˈɔːnz] (IPA)

The word "scorns" means to express disdain or contempt for someone or something. Some synonyms for this word include despise, ridicule, mock, scornful, taunt, belittle, deride, sneer, and disdainful. All these words convey a similar meaning to scorns and can be used interchangeably in different contexts. For example, you may say, "She sneered at his suggestion," or "He mocked her for her lack of knowledge." Using synonyms for words like "scorns" can help you to vary your language and add more depth and nuance to your writing or speech.

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Usage examples for Scorns

It scorns those mean-spirited citizens that cheer these kindly deeds.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
"Who scorns the simple things of life And tilts his nose at all he sees, Is almost sure to feel the knife Of want cut through his pleasant ease.
"The Adventures of Reddy Fox"
Thornton W. Burgess
The cheers of a traitor, the flattery of one who scorns, the ritual of a hypocrite, these are quite as valuable, as indications of what is within, as a reluctant relinquishment to my neighbour of what is his.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick

Famous quotes with Scorns

  • The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
    John W. Gardner
  • Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
    Horace
  • A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
  • When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
  • Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
    Franz Marc

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