Example sentences for: scorned

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

  • For days, the royals were scorned as stuffy brutes for failing to display grief in public.

  • 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.

  • In particular, carpetbaggers were scorned for capitalizing on the freed slaves' newly granted right to vote.

  • He scorned the Québécois for “retaining their peculiar language and manners.

  • King is scorned by those who do not read him, he said, but is underrated and sometimes very good (he suggested I start with the short stories).


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