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Example sentences for: scorn

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The philosopher Simone Weil characterized this assault of illness upon the self with the classical Greek notion of the soul— Malheur (affliction) stamps the soul to its very depths with scorn and disgust [14].
People who cleave to such attitudes may also scorn slang, but they are very often unaware of the true pristine condition of the language or of the origins of words that are standard in contemporary speech.
The young Russian gold medalist Ilya Kulik got raves for his dazzling skating and nothing but scorn for the yellow-and-black giraffe-print shirt he wore, with more scorn for the gauzy wings on the abstractly designed torso of his other costume.
Many participants built their responses around the scorn of our putatively fiercest critics--Norman Mailer, Michiko Kakutani.
But our anti-Southern jabs, above, are more than the ordinary scorn of neighbor vs. neighbor, more than urban vs. rural.