This reaction occurs when one is confronted with a person or a proposition that by challenging certain things for itself evokes a vivid sense of one's own superiority and awakens mingled resentment, repulsion and contempt by the hollowness of its claims and its intrinsic inferiority or worse. It includes a sense of superiority, resentment, and aversion. Skorn: Fox Talbot connects this English word with the Danish skarn, "dirt," "ordure" "mud," "mire." As distinguished from such words as "mock," "deride," "scoff," all of which refer specifically to the various ways in which scorn finds outward expression, scorn itself denotes a subjective state or reaction.įurther, this state or reaction is not simple but complex. Send us feedback about these examples.International Standard Bible Encyclopedia SCORN These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'disdain.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2023 Rather, the politicians who disdain COVID vaccinations-but likely have been vaccinated against, say, tetanus and polio-are going public with a purpose, sticking to an anti-science message that equates some of the most routine public functions with tyranny. Frankel, Shawn Boburg, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker and Alex Horton, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023 Gunmakers were no longer avoiding the gun that many had once regarded as the kind of weapon that society would disdain.
2023 For Polis, who disdains hardliners in both parties, ideology is something of a four-letter word. 2023 Sure, many people openly disdained Springer and his ilk, but the ratings didn't lie: People were watching. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. John Blake, CNN, 18 June 2023 Anyone who disdained the recommendations of Cramer and the other enthusiastic analysts on SVB and shorted the stock rather than buying would have made a healthy profit. 2023 But historians like Harris say most slaves disdained the type of Christianity that was taught to them. Véronique Hyland, ELLE, 17 July 2023 And not just your Folgers-drinking grandparents but venture capitalists, third-wave coffee roasters and aficionados who formerly might have disdained it. Verb The offerings skew look-at-me Baker disdains the current moment of minimalism and quiet luxury. Time, 6 July 2023 The song was released over a decade after his father's death, penned as a letter of respect to him following feelings of disdain. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023 States, cities, and institutions have taken steps on the issue, though even these relatively small-scale programs have often been met with outrage and disdain. Jared Marcel Pollen, The New Republic, 12 July 2023 Christie’s pose has won him admiration, begrudgingly, from progressive sources that normally would view him with skepticism, not to say disdain. Longreads, 14 July 2023 One is that, despite Kundera’s disdain for publicity, two biographies of him-both unsanctioned-have appeared in the last four years. Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 17 July 2023 For all of its disdain for environmentalists, the industry needs green consumers who seek absolution for their carbon-intensive ways of life. Nick Alvarez | al, 18 July 2023 Several banking executives have made their disdain for remote work clear. Trisha Thadani, Washington Post, 26 July 2023 Saban’s disdain for publicly labeling starters and backups isn’t anything new, but that won’t stop reporters from inquiring about the Tide’s new left tackle or inside linebacker. Noun To some, Musk’s apparent disdain for the city feels like salt in the wound.
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