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  • adjective Hated, despised, or avoided.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of scorn.

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  • adjective treated with contempt

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Examples

  • The only thing worse than a woman scorned is a mother whose child is in danger.

    Sarah Connor Chronicles Set for Jan Premiere : SF Universe - SF Universe is your Science Fiction central. From SciFi television to movies to books and more. All the latest news, reviews and insights from SciFi experts. 2007

  • The real failure of American foreign policy in the Middle East, where we are universally scorned, is that we have not connected the dots of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and terrorist attacks against the United States.

    When George Meets John 2004

  • The real failure of American foreign policy in the Middle East, where we are universally scorned, is that we have not connected the dots of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and terrorist attacks against the United States.

    When George Meets John 2004

  • The real failure of American foreign policy in the Middle East, where we are universally scorned, is that we have not connected the dots of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and terrorist attacks against the United States.

    When George Meets John 2004

  • A word scorned by a million liberal malcontents cutting off their noses to spite their collective face, considering it untrendy to stand up for a country that enshrined the very values that saddled their every high horse.

    Be My Enemy Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2004

  • By that time the Republican President was a whippersnapper named Teddy Roosevelt, whose imperialism Twain scorned (he called TR a Tom Sawyer type).

    The Atlantic | July/August 2001 | Mark Twain's Reconstruction | Blount Jr. 2001

  • She developed a reputation for promiscuity, and became known as a scorned woman, who bathed naked in the

    India's Bandit Queen 1996

  • She developed a reputation for promiscuity, and became known as a scorned woman, who bathed naked in the

    India's Bandit Queen 1996

  • Crowds gathered from the neighboring towns to gaze on the man whom they had known as a scorned and abused slave, and who now appeared among them as the ambassador of a power which hitherto, indeed, they had despised, but which in their present mood they were willing to propitiate.

    The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century Francis Parkman 1858

  • These arrangements, based on the systematic financial raping, plundering, and pillaging of companies like GM by the labor unions through the negotiating of employee wages that are two thirds higher than the average wage, are now known as the scorned "Cadillac plans."

    Canada Free Press Jim Byrd 2010

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