All 3 Uses
scorn
in
Growing Up, by Baker
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- With all her love for me, however, she never forgave my mother, and my mother returned the scorn measure for measure.†
Chpt 3 *scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- People who accepted the government's handouts were scorned by everyone I knew as idle no-accounts without enough self-respect to pay their own way in the world.†
Chpt 11scorned = disrespected or rejected
- Mimi felt herself the object of community scorn.†
Chpt 16scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
Definitions:
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(1)
(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)