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despise
To dislike intensely; loathe:
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  1. To dislike intensely; loathe:
  2. To look down on with contempt and scorn
  3. To regard with contempt or scorn:
disdain
To regard or treat with haughty contempt:
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  1. To regard or treat with haughty contempt:
  2. To consider or reject (doing something) as beneath oneself:
  3. To regard or treat as unworthy or beneath one's dignity; specif., to refuse or reject with aloof contempt or scorn
ignore
(Law) To reject (a bill of indictment) for lack of evidence
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  1. (Law) To reject (a bill of indictment) for lack of evidence
  2. To disregard deliberately; pay no attention to; refuse to consider
flout
To mock or scoff at; show scorn or contempt for
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  1. To mock or scoff at; show scorn or contempt for
  2. To express contempt for the rules by word or action.
  3. To ignore or disregard (a rule or convention, for example) in an open or defiant way:
defy
To resist completely in a baffling way
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  1. To resist completely in a baffling way
  2. To be beyond the application or scope of; be contrary or resistant to:
  3. To challenge or dare (someone) to do something:
spurn
To show contempt or disdain in refusing or rejecting
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  1. To show contempt or disdain in refusing or rejecting
  2. To reject something contemptuously.
  3. To refuse or reject with contempt or disdain; scorn
repudiate
To deny the truth of (a charge, etc.)
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  1. To deny the truth of (a charge, etc.)
  2. To refuse to accept or support; deny the validity or authority of (a belief, a treaty, etc.)
  3. To disown (a child, for example).
reject
To refuse to accept, submit to, believe, or make use of:
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  1. To refuse to accept, submit to, believe, or make use of:
  2. To refuse to give sufficient parental affection or care to (a child or young animal).
  3. To refuse to take, agree to, accede to, use, believe, etc.
avoid
To stay clear of; go around or away from:
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  1. To stay clear of; go around or away from:
  2. To prevent from happening:
  3. To refrain from using, engaging in, or partaking of:
shun
To refuse to accept socially; avoid having social contact with:
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  1. To refuse to accept socially; avoid having social contact with:
  2. To keep away from; avoid scrupulously or consistently, often, specif., as a practice by a group against a co-worker, coreligionist, etc. who has fallen out of favor
  3. To avoid, especially persistently.
renounce
To give up, relinquish, or reject something.
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  1. To give up, relinquish, or reject something.
  2. To decide or declare that one will no longer engage in (a practice) or use (something):
  3. To give up (a title or possession, for example), especially by formal announcement.
contempt
Open disrespect or willful disobedience of the authority of a court of law or legislative body.
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  1. Open disrespect or willful disobedience of the authority of a court of law or legislative body.
  2. The state of being despised or dishonored:
  3. The willful defiance, disregard, or disrespect of judicial or legislative authority or dignity, especially any disobedience of an order or any conduct that disrupts, obstructs, or interferes with the administration or procedures of a court or legislature. See also contemner. The willful defiance, disregard, or disrespect of judicial or legislative authority or dignity, especially any disobedience of an order or any conduct that disrupts, obstructs, or interferes with the administration or procedures of a court or legislature. See also contemner.
despite
Contemptuous defiance or disregard.
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  1. Contemptuous defiance or disregard.
  2. (Archaic) Contempt; scorn
  3. Malice; spite
disdain
(Uncountable) A feeling of contempt or scorn.
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  1. (Uncountable) A feeling of contempt or scorn.
  2. The feeling, attitude, or expression of disdaining; aloof contempt or scorn
  3. A feeling or show of contempt and aloofness; scorn.
contemn
To view with contempt; despise.
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  1. To view with contempt; despise.
  2. (Chiefly Literary) To treat or think of with contempt; scorn
despise
To dislike intensely; loathe:
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  1. To dislike intensely; loathe:
  2. To regard with contempt or scorn:
  3. To look down on with contempt and scorn
disdain
To regard or treat as unworthy or beneath one's dignity; specif., to refuse or reject with aloof contempt or scorn
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  1. To regard or treat as unworthy or beneath one's dignity; specif., to refuse or reject with aloof contempt or scorn
  2. To regard or treat with haughty contempt:
  3. To consider or reject (doing something) as beneath oneself:
scout
To work as a scout
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  1. To work as a scout
  2. To search for talented people:
  3. To search as a scout:
Find another word for scorn. In this page you can discover 33 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for scorn, like: hold in contempt, despise, disdain, ignore, flout, defy, spurn, repudiate, reject, turn the back upon and avoid.

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  • This scorn was not offensive to his master.

  • His tactics would never earn anything but scorn from Kris, but they worked.

  • The good knight is bound to endless fantastic courtesies towards men and still more towards women of a certain rank; he may treat all below that rank with any decree of scorn and cruelty.

  • "Of course not," added Jim, with a touch of scorn; "those little wooden legs of yours are not half as long as my own."

  • The word is of Armenian formation and signifies a son of Paulik or of little Paul; the termination -ik must here have originally expressed scorn and contempt.

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