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disrespect or reject as not good enough
- Did not her kitchen-maid rail, taunt, and scorn me?4.4 — Act 4 Scene 4 — The same (46% in)
scorn = disrespect or reject
- Come, come, no longer will I be a fool, To put the finger in the eye and weep, Whilst man and master laughs my woes to scorn.2.2 — Act 2 Scene 2 — The same (94% in)
- Here is thy fee; arrest him, officer:— I would not spare my brother in this case, If he should scorn me so apparently.4.1 — Act 4 Scene 1 — The same (69% in)
- Certes, she did: the kitchen-vestal scorn'd you.4.4 — Act 4 Scene 4 — The same (47% in)
- Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all; And art confederate with a damned pack, To make a loathsome abject scorn of me: But with these nails I'll pluck out these false eyes That would behold in me this shameful sport.4.4 — Act 4 Scene 4 — The same (64% in)
There are no more uses of "scorn" in The Comedy of Errors.
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