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• v  look down on with disdain
• v  reject with contempt
• s  treated with contempt

• To mark the American Library Association's annual Banned Books Week, PTI presents 10 of the most widely banned, burned, scorned and salvaged titles in history.
• Winston Churchill scorned him as a half-naked fakir stirring up sedition.
• His father, a manager at a Sears store, privately scorned Eugene (Bull) Connor, the police commissioner who turned fire hoses and attack dogs on black demonstrators, some as young .

• contemn
• despise
• scorn
• disdain
• reject
• spurn
• freeze off
• pooh-pooh
• turn down
• despised
• detested
• hated

News & Articles

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• The 'Girl Code' Revenge Squad Plots To Expose The Truth Behind Bad Ex-Boyfriends [Video]
  Yeah, you're a tough chick and you can handle yourself, but wouldn't it be nice if, every once in a while, you could pass off the dreaded task of setting your exes straight? Look no further, love-scorned ladies: The "Girl Code" Revenge Squad is on the case, and the fantastic foursome -- Nicole, Jessimae, Jamie [...]
  June 11, 2013 - MTV
• Boater turns viral carp video into river advocacy
  Terre Haute man whose video showing hundreds of Asian carp jumping into his boat has become an advocate for a waterway often scorned by boaters and fishermen.
  June 8, 2013 - WTHR Indianapolis
• Haven Police Searching for Scorned Lover
  WINTER HAVEN | Winter Haven police are looking for a scorned lover they say is continually breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s home.
  June 5, 2013 - The Lakeland Ledger

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Southern Voice
  We have scorned our gay brothers and sisters instead of embracing them,Obama told attendees.
• Allan Donald in Rediff
  I know he has been through a bad run through injuries for the last couple of years. But he looked quite his old self out there apart from being grilled. Not many times you see him getting scorned. But he is definitely the best I have seen,...
• Helen Zille in News24
  But it was short-lived - hell hath no fury like a senior political bride scorned,Zille said.