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<Entry xmlns="urn:NEID" xmlns:d="urn:NEID" xmlns:e="urn:IDMEE" level="40"><DEnt><HwdGp><HWD>scorn</HWD></HwdGp><FwkSenCnt><POS code="n"/><GRAM code="uncount"/><MEANING>a feeling that sb/sth is not good enough to merit your approval or respect</MEANING><ExCnt><EX>After all, apart from attracting <b>scorn</b> and ridicule, homosexuality, whether real or perceived, can still land you in jail in many African countries.
</EX></ExCnt><ExCnt><EX>Oakland's board of education drew nationwide <b>scorn</b> with its recent vote to teach black schoolchildren in ghetto-ese.
</EX></ExCnt><ExCnt><EX>After enduring the <b>scorn</b> and derision of jobsworth temping agency staff in my home town for weeks on end, I jumped on the first job that came my way at a Jigsaw factory in Watford.
</EX></ExCnt><LINK>pour scorn on</LINK><FwkStrCnt><STRN code="PP_X"/><STRSTAT>for</STRSTAT><ExCnt><EX>She had great <b>scorn</b> for the notion that one should be able to laugh at oneself.
</EX></ExCnt><ExCnt><EX>And Jack has problems with Freya's utter <b>scorn</b> for human frailty ... especially when it's directed at him.
</EX></ExCnt><ExCnt><EX>The Road to Wigan Pier , with its open <b>scorn</b> for middle-class Marxists, scarcely fitted the Club's mould.
</EX></ExCnt></FwkStrCnt></FwkSenCnt><FwkSenCnt><POS code="v"/><MEANING>to treat sb in a way that shows you do not approve of them or respect them</MEANING><FwkStrCnt><STRV code="NP"/><ExCnt><EX>Pilate passed him off to Herod and Herod <b>scorned</b> him.
</EX></ExCnt><ExCnt><EX>Saudi pro-government newspapers ‹ there are no anti-government newspapers in the ultra conservative kingdom ‹ on Wednesday welcomed the withdrawal but used the event to <b>scorn</b> the opposition.
</EX></ExCnt><ExCnt><EX>It goes without saying that they considered this fate an absolute degradation, and those who accepted it were <b>scorned</b> by their peers.
.</EX></ExCnt></FwkStrCnt><FwkStrCnt><STRV code="NP PP_X"/><STRSTAT>for</STRSTAT><ExCnt><EX>My children have built good friendships and have never been <b>scorned</b> for the way they sound or the manner in which they do things.
</EX></ExCnt><ExCnt><EX>Guston, who had been <b>scorned</b> by critics for his new figurative paintings, had retreated to Woodstock.
</EX></ExCnt><ExCnt><EX>His fellow samurai <b>scorn</b> him for his dishonourable, mercenary ways.
</EX></ExCnt></FwkStrCnt></FwkSenCnt><FwkSenCnt><SUBFORM>scorned</SUBFORM><POS code="ptp_adj"/><MEANING>treated in a way that shows you do not approve of or respect sb</MEANING><ExCnt><EX>A social climber hopes to become the lover of a cabinet minister (who? one wonders), and the <b>scorned</b> ex-lover of an MP attempts blackmail.
</EX></ExCnt><ExCnt><EX>But Nash will soon find out that <b>scorned</b> women do not make gracious hostesses.
</EX></ExCnt><ExCnt><EX>And , never make them feel <b>scorned</b> or ignored as people become huffy and unpredictable if they feel they or their arguments are being discounted and their worth not acknowledged .</EX></ExCnt></FwkSenCnt><FwkSenCnt><POS code="v"/><MEANING>to reject sth and think that it is does not merit approval or respect</MEANING><FwkStrCnt><STRV code="NP"/><FwkCollocCnt><CollocGp><COLLOC>idea</COLLOC><COLLOC>suggestion</COLLOC><COLLOC>chance</COLLOC></CollocGp><ExCnt><EX>He also <b>scorned</b> the idea that Britain would suffer from being outside the euro.
</EX></ExCnt><ExCnt><EX>She looked at him and was about to <b>scorn</b> such an improper suggestion, but then noticed the hangdog look on his face.
</EX></ExCnt><ExCnt><EX>Even if they were criticised for <b>scorning</b> the chance to stay in the Olympic Village and cocooning themselves in the familiar luxury of a five-star hotel, the spectators marvelled at the athleticism of some of the most famous sportsmen in the world.
</EX></ExCnt></FwkCollocCnt></FwkStrCnt></FwkSenCnt><FwkSenCnt><POS code="v"/><MEANING>to be unwilling to do sth because you are too proud</MEANING><FwkStrCnt><STRV code="Vinf_to"/><ExCnt><EX>King Hudibras was a stern man, however, and <b>scorned</b> to show womanly weakness before his people.
</EX></ExCnt><ExCnt><EX>No; your accomplished angler would <b>scorn</b> to tell a lie, that way.
</EX></ExCnt><ExCnt><EX>" I <b>scorned</b> to answer: it would have been beneath my dignity.
</EX></ExCnt></FwkStrCnt></FwkSenCnt><FwkMWEBlk><PhrBlk><PhrCnt><PhrGp><PHR>pour scorn on</PHR><VarCnt><VAR>heap scorn on</VAR></VarCnt></PhrGp><FwkSenCnt><MEANING>to speak contemptuously about sb/sth</MEANING><ExCnt><EX>All of them, for whatever reason, <b>poured scorn</b> on the idea that consuming dairy could be bad for health.
</EX></ExCnt><ExCnt><EX>This divisive attitude is in line with all of their policies, whether voting through cuts or <b>pouring scorn</b> on trade union action.
</EX></ExCnt><ExCnt><EX>He <b>heaped scorn on</b> the government for its bungled handling of evidence.
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