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scorn
/skɔːn/
noun
Contempt or disdain.
A display of disdain; a slight.
An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
verb
To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
To reject, turn down.
"He scorned her romantic advances."
To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
"She scorned to show weakness."
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