Usually means: Disdainfully rejecting or mocking something.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. scorning: Merriam-Webster
  2. scorning: Collins English Dictionary
  3. scorning: Vocabulary.com
  4. Scorning, scorning: Wordnik
  5. scorning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. scorning: Wiktionary
  7. scorning: Dictionary.com
  8. scorning: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. scorning: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. scorning: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scorning: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scorning: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (scorning)

▸ noun:  The act of one who scorns.

Similar:
despise, contemn, disdain, contempt, spurn, reject, turn down, pooh-pooh, freeze off, derision, more...

Opposite:
admiring, respecting, venerating

Types:
contempt, disdain, scorn, derision, mockery, more...

Adjectives:
idle, bitter, other, bedrid, haughty, mere, sharpest, rude, much, less



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Similar:
despise, contemn, disdain, contempt, spurn, reject, turn down, pooh-pooh, freeze off, derision, more...

Opposite:
admiring, respecting, venerating

Types:
contempt, disdain, scorn, derision, mockery, more...

Adjectives:
idle, bitter, other, bedrid, haughty, mere, sharpest, rude, much, less



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