How to use "scorn" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "scorn" in popular movie and book plots

  • After serving her sentence, Barbara arrived at Angela's mansion, greeted with scorn and ridicule from the immensely egotistical Angela.  - Die, Mommie, Die!
  • He cries out in pain, knowing that the last thing he said to Mundo Cani before his great sacrifice, were words of scorn and hatred.  - The Book of the Dun Cow (novel)
  • Hermione asks Orestes to avenge her scorn from Pyrrhus by killing him.  - Andromaque
  • He feels alienated from the natives and never settles down, always aware of the scorn they see him with.  - Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II
  • His commentary receives severe scorn from the White House Press Secretary, CNN and Time magazine, and causes his popularity to plummet.  - Return of the King (The Boondocks)
  • But I also scorn you.  - Nazarín
  • When their initial designs are met with scorn by Lola, Charlie and Lauren bring her on as a consultant.  - Kinky Boots (film)
  • Julio casts her aside in scorn and helps his grandfather home.  - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (film)
  • Hogg appears as himself in this section, expressing scorn of the project to open the grave.  - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
  • Unable or unwilling to impose his authority, he is treated with scorn by everybody.  - Coup de Torchon
  • As he is now Monkey, he must relinquish all his human desires, including love, so he tells Zixia he is not Joker and pretends to scorn her.  - A Chinese Odyssey
  • Dastari heaps scorn on Shockeye's primitive urges, and urges Chessene to remember that she is beyond those.  - The Two Doctors
  • Sometimes they scorn us for having had it so easy, and sometimes they’re delighted.  - The Woman Warrior
  • Davus heaps scorn on this idea.  - Andria (comedy)
  • The scorn he would bear if people knew of her terror would stall his career; hence his angry reply.  - Effi Briest
  • He expresses his scorn for the seemingly heartless, ultra-rich man, who will not lift a finger to help the multitudes of desperate poor.  - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

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