scorn

/skɔːn/

noun

1. Contempt or disdain.

2. A display of disdain; a slight.

3. An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.

verb

1. To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.

2. To reject, turn down.

Example: He scorned her romantic advances.

3. To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.

Example: She scorned to show weakness.

4. To scoff, to express contempt.

Synonyms: deride mock ridicule scoff sneer