Example sentences for: scorn

How can you use “scorn” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 150] that the simplified spellings advocated by Webster “would probably have happened anyway”--they didn't happen “anyway” in Britain, where, despite the fact that many of the forms cannot be justified etymologically or any other way, the conservatives continue to heap scorn on American spelling.

  • No one could scorn them if they were meaningless; then they would simply be empty oddities.

  • Artists still scorn it as a vulgar pastiche, and the working-class residents of the area resented its being erected as a symbol of penitence for the insurrection of the 1871 Commune — they didn’t feel penitent in the least.

  • How can you gain the moral high ground, that lofty crag from which to hurl down scorn, when your native city--what's the word?

  • But our anti-Southern jabs, above, are more than the ordinary scorn of neighbor vs. neighbor, more than urban vs. rural.


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