He said mine eyes were black and my hair black, And,
now I am remembered, scorned at me. --Shak.
I scorn thy meat; 't would choke me. --Shak.
This my long sufferance, and my day of grace, Those
who neglect and scorn shall never taste. --Milton.
We scorn what is in itself contemptible or
disgraceful. --C. J. Smith.
2. To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of
insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride.
His fellow, that lay by his bed's side, Gan for to
laugh, and scorned him full fast. --Chaucer.
To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously. --Shak.
Syn: To contemn; despise; disdain. See {Contemn}.
Scorn at first makes after love the more. --Shak.
And wandered backward as in scorn, To wait an [ae]on
to be born. --Emerson.
2. An act or expression of extreme contempt.
Every sullen frown and bitter scorn But fanned the
fuel that too fast did burn. --Dryden.
3. An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision.
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn
and a derision to them that are round about us.
--Ps. xliv.
13.
{To think scorn}, to regard as worthy of scorn or contempt;
to disdain. ``He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai
alone.'' --Esther iii. 6.
{To laugh to scorn}, to deride; to make a mock of; to
ridicule as contemptible.
Syn: Contempt; disdain; derision; contumely; despite; slight;
dishonor; mockery.