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Example sentences for: scorned
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For days, the royals were scorned as stuffy brutes for failing to display grief in public.
But once he gets the couple into the forest, where they're furiously pursued by Demetrius and his scorned mistress, Helena (Calista Flockhart), their nocturnal circlings might as well be set in a TV studio--they're stage-bound.
Naturally Baiae grumbles because its groves Of myrtle are now no longer what one resorts to, And its sulfur hot baths scorned, so celebrated Once upon a time for being good for Everything that ails one, and they're miffed By invalids who go away to put Their heads and shoulders under Clusium's waters Or else to plunge in Gabii's frigid baths.
When they relented and displayed their grief, they were likened to President Clinton (for feeling others' pain) and scorned for pandering to public opinion.