How to Use scorn in a Sentence

scorn

1 of 2 noun
  • Third, the scorn for this trio now seems priced in at these low levels relative to their highs.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Those who know better but act badly deserve the scorn of the people — maybe more than the lunatic-in-chief.
    — Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
  • Which is not to say that Jewish spaces are safe from external judgment and scorn.
    — Jesse Brown, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Paramount came in for particular scorn.
    — David Folkenflik, NPR, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Saturday night, on the sport’s biggest stage, Ohtani’s one-of-a-kind existence drew some scorn.
    — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Defying public scorn to confront a war’s toll, the activists’ quiet protests echo louder than words.
    — Beatrice Verhoeven, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Special scorn was directed at Rubio.
    — Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • And a special shout out to Katy Perry, whose Lifetimes tour earned scorn from anonymous internet haters.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 21 Dec. 2025
  • That comment drew some scorn from Judge William Nardini, who interrupted her.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Other women were political leaders who earned the scorn of their contemporaries.
    — Time, 24 Nov. 2025
  • And the scorn for Freediving Culture™ probably has more to do with his upbringing, which involved very few dolphins and a lot of guns.
    — Sean Williams, Outside, 27 Oct. 2025
  • For the last year or so, decisions have been going in favor of the government as valuations at large multiples of a recent selling price have met with judicial scorn.
    — Peter J Reilly, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • For the next four decades, DERM would survive budget cuts, changing politics and the scorn of developers.
    — Jenny Staletovich, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The letter’s tone was both-sides-y and scolding, earning immediate scorn—the pearl clutching about cancelation from some of the biggest names in media struck many as disingenuous.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Some authors, librarians, and miscellaneous posters were outraged that Barnett would pour scorn on the very field that he is officially tasked with championing.
    — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 12 June 2026
  • Trump has long held a scorn for Washington, which as a stand-alone city operates similar to a state but without the autonomy, and its permanent population.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Her queerness, though, got rejected by her parents (Merritt Wever channeling a withering scorn and a pious look that is cold and unnerving).
    — Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2025
  • In his first assignment, Phillip is assigned the role of a groom so that a gay woman can secretly marry her actual partner, yet not receive scorn from her conservative family.
    — Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 20 Nov. 2025
  • His cultural critiques were unmistakably right-wing, but his scorn for the corporatization of universities might have come from the mouth of a disaffected leftist.
    — Emma Green, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Despite the irony of her preoccupation with designer labels designating her as the stuffy one in the Spice Girls, she was met with scorn by the fashion establishment.
    — Scarlett Harris, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Three years ago, Ross Chastain dramatically tailed off after being targeted for scorn from several veterans who tangled with him.
    — ABC News, 8 June 2026
  • Throughout the presentation, Yeager and a few outspoken members of the audience mentioned with scorn that voters have removed many school board trustees like-minded to Yeager in the last few years.
    — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 May 2026
  • One day, Salim endures abuse from Israeli soldiers and earns the scorn of Noor, who is radicalized both by his grandfather’s trauma and his father’s apparent cowardice.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The technological development is prompting people to embrace the old understanding of typos, forgiving misspellings as inevitable errors rather than treating them with scorn.
    — Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026
  • The standoff is a political test for Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, who has drawn scorn from a restive base of left-flank voters pushing the party to hold firm in its demands for health care funding.
    — Mary Clare Jalonick, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Her queerness, though, was rejected by her parents (Merritt Wever, channeling a withering scorn and a pious look that is cold and unnerving, and Ethan Embry as her conservative father).
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Last year, at the age of eighty-six, Hopkins appeared as the Roman emperor Vespasian on TV, in Those About to Die, the thrust of his performance being to treat the show’s title with scorn.
    — Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
  • And Kyiv's ambitions to join the bloc, which predate the 2014 revolution that brought to power a pro-West government and set the conditions for the current crisis, have long drawn particular scorn from the Kremlin.
    — Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The opposition The North Natomas site has drawn scorn from dozens of area residents who arrived at City Hall to voice opposition, plead for the city to reconsider the location and threaten a lawsuit at a recent council meeting.
    — Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Now, the county is reportedly close to a deal to buy the site from the developer for a cost of $400 million — some of it to be paid over 20 years — and the premium has brought national attention and local scorn to Levine Cava for the situation.
    — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 4 June 2026

scorn

2 of 2 verb
  • He scorns anyone who earns less money than he does.
  • Her actions were scorned by many people.
  • They were scorned as fanatics.
  • Hell hath no fury like… an ex scorned?
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Hell hath no fury like a Canuck scorned.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Hell hath no fury like a dancing duo scorned.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Aronimink has drawn both praise and scorn this week.
    — Chris Branch, New York Times, 14 May 2026
  • Gastineau says the video has led to him being ridiculed and scorned.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Hell hath no fury like a therapist scorned.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned—something along those lines.
    — Lauren Sanchez, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The scorelessness has turned to scorn, too.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
  • In Splitsville, Julie is a wife scorned and ignored.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Slip artists, many of them gay, and many of them women, were proud to scorn this model.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • In a sense, the entire punk genre sprung up to scorn the concept of trying too hard.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 10 Jan. 2020
  • If one offered for love all the wealth of one's house, it would be utterly scorned.
    — Cnn Staff, CNN, 18 May 2018
  • To do so was to risk almost certain death or, at the least, scorn from our neighbors.
    — David Holloway, al, 6 Sep. 2023
  • For years, Knicks owner James Dolan has been scorned by fans.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 3 June 2026
  • Throughout our years in this country it has been used to scorn and belittle us.
    — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Don't miss the opening and closing acts And don't scorn the nights away from the peak date.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Aim to clean once a week—hell hath no fury like Angry Mama scorned.
    — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 20 June 2017
  • And yet the response to the story, for many, was scorn and disbelief.
    — Mary Ziegler, CNN, 16 July 2022
  • However, Eleanor is not a woman to be scorned.
    — Robert Lang, Deadline, 27 Dec. 2025
  • People who disagree with you are to be scorned, shunned and ignored -- not engaged.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 15 June 2017
  • The sun, which had been scorching, scorned our embrace then hid behind the riverbank.
    — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • Wherever hatred and bigotry comes from, it should be called out, it should be scorned and shut down.
    — Tom Loftus, The Courier-Journal, 15 Aug. 2017
  • A lot of us on the right like to scorn, mock, and dump on government, for plenty of good reasons.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 June 2021
  • Even those without a racist bone in their body will scorn protest and any method of upsetting the apple cart.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Joe scorns his customers for buying Dan Brown novels and chakra guides.
    — Elizabeth Barber, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Those who believed in finvenkismo scorned Raŭmismo.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • Her belief that tech can save us maps to the often rosy outlook that has brought attention and scorn to our brand.
    — WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023

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