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disrespect or reject as not good enough
- Grandmother murmured something in embarrassment, but the Bohemian woman laughed scornfully, a kind of whinny-laugh, and, catching up an empty coffee-pot from the shelf, shook it at us with a look positively vindictive.Book 1 — The Shimerdas (52% in)
- Leo, in a low voice, tossed off some scornful remark in Bohemian.Book 5 — Cuzak's Boys (25% in)
There are no more uses of "scorn" in My Antonia.
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