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scorned

Meanings
  • verb (scorn someone)

    treated with contempt or ridicule; rejected or dismissed with disdain

    - "After losing the election, his opponents began to scorn him."
    - "The teacher scorned the student's excuse for not completing the assignment."
  • adjective

    feeling or showing contempt or ridicule

    - "The scorned lover plotted revenge."
    - "Her scornful tone made it clear she did not approve."
Pronunciation




  1. Source: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=296096"
Synonyms

deride , mock , ridicule , scoff , sneer
Rhymes
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morned , urned , deorned
Variants
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scorn , scorned , scorner , scorners , scorning , scorns
Forms
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scorns, scorned, scornful, scornfully

Etymology
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From Old French escornier ‘make fun of, deride’, from es ‘out’ + corn ‘horn’, perhaps referring to the gesture of holding up the horns as a symbol of contempt.

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  1. The term 'scorned' appears in the Bible, specifically in Psalm 69:20: 'Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some consolation, but there was none; neither found I any comfort in them that remembered my soul: I thought, My soul shall be in the silence of the grave; I had few and evil things; and thou hast left me alone in the midst of them.'

  2. The word 'scorned' is also used in the context of weather, specifically in the term 'scorned frost', which refers to a frost that occurs after the growing season and does not damage crops.

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  1. contempt: A feeling of strong disrespect for someone or something.

  2. ridicule: Making fun of someone or something in a cruel or mocking way.

Quotes
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  1. My parents "scorned" packaged and ready-made foods. 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.

    - Molly O'Neill,{it}Vogue{/it},January 2007

  2. Stung by attacks on his new Excursion—a 12.5-m.p.g. 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. 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.

    - Margot Roosevelt,{it}Time{/it},14 Aug. 2000

  3. 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".

    - Rob Long,{it}National Review{/it},13 Feb. 2006
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In literature, the 'scorned' often appears in the context of love and revenge. For instance, in Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet', Romeo's scorned love for Rosaline fuels his passion for Juliet. In music, 'Scorned' is the title of a song by the band 'Sevendust'.

How to Memorize "scorned"

  1. visualize

    - Visualize a person making a 'horns' gesture while showing contempt or ridicule.

  2. associate

    - Associate the word 'scorned' with feelings of rejection and disdain.

  3. mnemonics

    - Create a mnemonic using the sentence: 'Scorned lovers plot revenge, seeking redemption'.

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