Scorning Synonyms and Antonyms

To refuse as a matter of principle
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. renouncing
  2. shunning
  3. avoiding
  4. rejecting
  5. repudiating
  6. spurning
  7. defying
  8. flouting
  9. ignoring
Antonyms:
  1. accepting
  2. acknowledging
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Scorning Sentence Examples

  • He was a great statesman in that he conceived a magnificent yet practicable scheme for making France first among nations, and in that he possessed a matchless faculty for work, neither shrinking from the vastest undertakings nor scorning the most trivial details.

  • They finally stated " that they would defend the law of our Lord Jesus Christ and its pious, humble and steadfast preachers at the cost of their blood, scorning all fear and all human decrees that might be contrary to them.

  • Beatrice, independent and forthright and Benedick, a self-confessed ' woman-hater ', pass their time constantly goading and scorning each other.

  • Utterly scorning the democratic process, She saw off parliamentary candidates wholesale.

  • Her contemporaries, scorning her low birth rather than her vices, attributed to her a malicious political role of which she was at heart incapable, and have done scant justice to her quick wit, her frank but gracious manners, and her seductive beauty.

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