2022 His investigation had drawn bipartisan scorn, and his firing generated bipartisan praise. 2021 His investigation had drawn bipartisan scorn, and his firing generated bipartisan praise. Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Nix knows that the acclaim could turn back into scorn as the leaves start to brown. He scorns anyone who earns less money than he does.

Similarly, GM has sought to position itself as the greenest car company, beginning in 1996 when it launched the nation's first modern, mass-produced electric car, the EV-1. guzzler dubbed 'Ford Valdez' by critics-he has expressed fears that auto companies could be scorned like tobacco companies if they don't clean up their act. 2006 Stung by attacks on his new Excursion-a 12.5-m.p.g. Molly O'Neill, Vogue, January 2007 A union member and activist since age 15, bound for an academic career at Cornell and NYU, Fitch, now past 65, writes like a lover scorned. It did not matter that, at the time, our hometown was a test-market capital for these sorts of food products my father still thought that convenience food was a Communist plot, and my mother insisted that only trashy people failed to practice a separation of food groups. Verb My parents scorned packaged and ready-made foods. Her political rivals have poured scorn on her ideas for improving the tax system. 2002 Claiming their inalienable rights as teenagers, the two exercise an unmitigated scorn for all adults in the immediate vicinity … - B. But provocation is only one of his purposes. Epstein, Forbes, 21 July 2008 He burns with generous indignation at the scorn with which many literary critics have treated Tolkien, and his subtitle, 'author of the Century,' is meant to provoke.

The trading of favors for cash is so prevalent that, like the honest cop in a corrupt police unit, an ethical journalist risks the scorn of colleagues. Where glues are concerned, I, personally, would not scorn to wear both a belt and braces.Noun Unlike government censorship, this corruption eats at one of China's more beleaguered professions from within its ranks.As they undressed and put their worn-out shoes beneath their beds, they again scorned the efforts of the soldier.

Many young people scorn polite behaviour as insincere.

It is too valuable a document of human heartbreak and muddle to be scorned or dismissed.

My kids used to scorn my politics as right-wing selfishness.

Many scorned it but rapturous press reviews helped push the record up into the high altitudes of the independent chart.

Admired by the young and scorned by the old.

Skinner's ideas were scorned by many American psychologists.

Marry as I order you or I brand you as wanton for everyone to scorn.

Hell hath no fury like a user scorned.

The limits of convention were hers to scorn.

→ See Verb table Examples from the Corpus scorn 2 to criticize someone or something because you think they do not deserve respect He scorned the government’s record in dealing with crime. scorn scorn 2 verb 1 REJECT/NOT ACCEPT to show that you think that something is stupid, unreasonable, or not worth accepting Many women scorn the use of make-up.

He could barely disguise his scorn for her.

But Washington last night poured scorn on Mr Chretien's veto claim.

Wrong to fear fitzAlan's impatience or scorn.

I vacillated between the false potency of scorn and feelings of ineptitude.

But remember my scorn for the so-called airtight argument!.

Who stare at us with incredulous scorn.

Rosie said with that upper lip twisting in scorn.

2 → pour scorn on somebody/something Examples from the Corpus scorn with scorn Rachel looked at me with scorn. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English scorn scorn 1 / skɔːn $ skɔːrn / noun 1 MAKE FUN OF the feeling that someone or something is stupid or does not deserve respect SYN contempt scorn for He felt scorn for his working-class parents.

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