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Laugh (someone or something) to scorn. To mock or ridicule someone or something; to subject someone or something to scorn, derision, or contempt. The senator was laughed to scorn for his ignorance of pop culture.
. Mandarin: (please ), (please )Noun scorn ( and, plural ).
( ) or. ( ) A display of disdain; a. (Can we this quote by Dryden and provide title, author's full name, and other details?) Every sullen frown and bitter scorn / But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn. ( ) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision. Bible, Psalms xliv.
13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.Usage notes. Scorn is often used in the phrases pour scorn on and heap scorn on.Quotations.
circa 1605: The cry is still 'They come': our castle's strength / Will laugh a siege to scorn —,. 1967, Rain of tears, real, mist of imagined scorn — John Berryman, Berryman's Sonnets. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Synonyms.
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