Synonyms for scorn
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1. scorn

   Abhor is stronger than despise, implying a shuddering recoil, especially a moral recoil. "How many shun evil as inconvenient who do not abhor it as hateful." Trench Serm. in Westm. Abbey xxvi, 297. [Murray's "New English Dictionary"] Detest expresses indignation, with something of contempt. Loathe implies disgust, physical or moral. We abhor a traitor, despise a coward, detest a liar. We dislike an uncivil person. We abhor cruelty, hate tyranny. We loathe a reptile or a flatterer. We abhor Milton's heroic Satan, but we can not despise him.

   Synonyms:
   abhor, abominate, despise, detest, dislike, hate, loathe, nauseate, shun

   Antonyms:
   admire, approve, covet, crave, desire, enjoy, esteem, esteem, like, love, relish

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1. scornverb

   Synonyms:
   contemn, despise, slight, disdain, disregard, sibilate, vilipend, spurn, scout

   Antonyms:
   honor, regard, esteem, venerate, respect, applaud, salute

2. scornnoun

   Synonyms:
   mockery, disdain, contempt, sneer, slight, opprobrium

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1. contempt, disdain, scorn, despitenoun

   lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike

   "he was held in contempt"; "the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary"

   Synonyms:
   patronage, contempt, condescension, disdain, despite, disrespect

2. contempt, scornverb

   open disrespect for a person or thing

   Synonyms:
   contempt, disdain, despite, disrespect

3. contemn, despise, scorn, disdainverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   contemn, spurn, reject, pooh-pooh, turn down, freeze off, despise, disdain

4. reject, spurn, freeze off, scorn, pooh-pooh, disdain, turn downverb

   reject with contempt

   "She spurned his advances"

   Synonyms:
   freeze off, eliminate, rule out, lower, resist, despise, winnow out, contemn, decline, lour, spurn, pass up, pooh-pooh, reject, disapprove, disdain, turn away, refuse, turn down

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1. scornverb

   Synonyms:
   contemn, despise, disdain, scout, slight, hold in contempt

2. scornverb

   Synonyms:
   disdain

3. scornnoun

   Synonyms:
   contempt, disdain, derision, mockery, slight, sneer

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1. scornnoun

   Synonyms:
   contempt, disdain, derision, contumely, mockery, slight

2. scornverb

   Synonyms:
   despise, reject, contemn, disregard, scout, spurn

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1. List of paraphrases for "scorn":

   contempt, disdain, disregard, despise, defiance, derision

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1. Thomas à Kempis:

   The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

2. Akhenaten:

   As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

3. President Trump:

   When the Republicans had the Majority they never acted with such hatred and scorn, the Dems are trying to win an election in 2020 that they know they can not legitimately win !

4. Aeschylus:

   O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

5. Mahabharata:

   Let none with scorn a suppliant meet, Or from the door untended spurn A dog; an outcast kindly treat; And so thou shalt be blest in turn.