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scorn

/skɔːn/
noun
  1. Contempt or disdain.

  2. A display of disdain; a slight.

  3. An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.

verb
  1. To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.

  2. To reject, turn down.

    "He scorned her romantic advances."

  3. To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.

    "She scorned to show weakness."

Synonymsderide, mock, ridicule, scoff, sneer

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