Scorn
feeling of contempt, disdain, or despisement
Scornis a feeling of contempt, disdain, or despisement for something or somebody.
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Quotes
edit- So let him stand, through ages yet unborn,
Fix'd statue on the pedestal of Scorn.- Lord Byron,Curse of Minerva(1811_, line 206.
- He will laugh thee to scorn.
- Ecclesiasticus, XIII. 7.
- He hears
On all sides, from innumerable tongues
A dismal universal hiss, the sound
Of public scorn.- John Milton,Paradise Lost(1667; 1674), Book X, line 506.
- אַל-תּוֹכַח לֵץ פֶּן-יִשְׂנָאֶךָּ הוֹכַח לְחָכָם וְיֶאֱהָבֶךָּ
- Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
- Proverbs 9:8, King James Version
- A drop of patience: but, alas, to make me
A fixed figure, for the time of scorn
To point his slow unmovingfingerat!- William Shakespeare,Othello(c. 1603), Act IV, scene 2, line 53. In the folio: "The fixed figure for the time of scorn / To point his slow and moving finger at".
- O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful
In the contempt and anger of his lip!- William Shakespeare,Twelfth Night(c. 1601-02), Act III, scene 1, line 156.