Scorn: alternatives and connections

To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

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To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

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To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.

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To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.

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To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

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To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

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To empty.

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Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance.

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To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.

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To sob with convulsions.

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To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

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To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.

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Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility.

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To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish.

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Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy.

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To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to de…

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To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.

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One who flees.

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To learn.

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To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression.

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A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.

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A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.

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To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

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To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

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Rejecting, or tending to reject.

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Rejecting, or tending to reject.

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To view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn.

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The act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.

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To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of.

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Malice; malignity; spite; malicious anger; contemptuous hate.

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A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.

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To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt, as if by saying pooh! pooh!

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To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

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To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.

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