Example sentences for: scorn

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

  • That was scarcely more than the 5 percent who dared the pollsters' scorn by admitting outright that "the Clinton-Lewinsky matter" concerned them most.

  • His daily stimulant--"If you can call it that," he remarked to his partner and close friend, Harold Epison, "--the daily ingestion of poison I inflict on myself"--was what he referred to with some scorn as "the McCarthy page" in the morning's newspaper.

  • Would the grits be ducks, or are they fair game for News Quiz scorn?

  • Critics heap scorn on this edited version of an unfinished "fictional memoir" left behind by Hemingway and crucify the writer's children for their now routine desecration of their father's reputation (see the line of furniture, eyeglasses, and shotguns licensed by Hemingway Ltd.).

  • Blum dismisses bad research with the right touch of scorn, but does not feel a need to neutralize it with politically palatable agitprop.


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