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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
scorn .
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Examples
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We were willing to put up with the whips and scorns, which is another way of saying the garlic and tobacco, for the sake of the music.
The Master-Knot of Human Fate Ellis Meredith
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At an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting (which, of course, she scorns), Julia meets broken, obviously unhinged Elena (Kate del Castillo), who pleads with her to kidnap her estranged young son from her wealthy industrialist father.
John Farr: She Who Dares: The Astonishing Work Of Tilda Swinton John Farr 2011
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The mistake he made during the Africa visit shows that the pope scorns reality.
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They are almost always the brainchild of a visionary, but the "tribe" scorns if not reviles them.
Politics 2010
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They are almost always the brainchild of a visionary, but the "tribe" scorns if not reviles them.
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At an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting (which, of course, she scorns), Julia meets broken, obviously unhinged Elena (Kate del Castillo), who pleads with her to kidnap her estranged young son from her wealthy industrialist father.
John Farr: She Who Dares: The Astonishing Work Of Tilda Swinton John Farr 2011
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All of the children realize when they reunite the next day that they must take the note to the authorities, but when a policeman scorns their efforts to help, they resolve to decipher the clue on their own.
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They are almost always the brainchild of a visionary, but the "tribe" scorns if not reviles them.
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His wife scorns his work, and he has become a drunk, physically present but psychologically absent in his marriage.
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They are almost always the brainchild of a visionary, but the "tribe" scorns if not reviles them.
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