Definition of Scorned

1. Adjective. Treated with contempt.

Exact synonyms: Despised, Detested, Hated
Similar to: Unloved

Definition of Scorned

1. Adjective. Hated, despised, or avoided. ¹

2. Verb. (past of ''scorn'') ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scorned

1. scorn [v] - See also: scorn

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scorned

scorie
scorification
scorified
scorifier
scorifiers
scorifies
scoriform
scorify
scorifying
scoring
scoring off
scoring system
scorings
scorious
scorn
scorned (current term)
scornee
scornees
scorner
scorners
scornest
scorneth
scornful
scornfully
scornfulness
scornfulnesses
scorning
scorningly
scornings
scornless

Literary usage of Scorned

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: Together with an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... they offered him quarter ; which, they say, he refused ; answering, " that he scorned to take quarter from such base rogues and rebels as they were. ..."

2. Poems: And Poems of California and the West by Benjamin Franklin Field (1904)
"THAT WHICH I scorned Love came to a boy in a quiet place And changed his life in a day, Pride came to a girl with a lovely face And she journeyed far away. ..."

3. The Massachusetts Teacher by Massachusetts Teachers Federation, Massachusetts Teachers' Association (1854)
"Let not a Christian practise what a pagan scorned. DIVISION OF LABOR. IT is generally conceded that our fathers did wisely in limiting the studies in our ..."

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