Usually means: Contempt or disdain for something.
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  1. scorn: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. scorn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scorn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scorn: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scorn: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scorn, scorn: Wordnik
  7. scorn: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. scorn: Wiktionary
  9. scorn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. scorn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. scorn: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. scorn: Dictionary.com
  13. scorn (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. scorn: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Scorn (DC Comics), Scorn (Marvel Comics), Scorn (band), Scorn (comics), Scorn (video game), Scorn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Scorn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. scorn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. scorn: Rhymezone
  19. scorn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. scorn: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. scorn: Free Dictionary
  22. scorn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. scorn: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. scorn: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. scorn: Legal dictionary

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  1. scorn: Encyclopedia

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  1. scorn: Idioms

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  1. Scorn: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See scorned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
verb:  (transitive) To reject, turn down.
verb:  (transitive) To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
verb:  (intransitive) To scoff, to express contempt.
noun:  (uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
noun:  (countable) A display of disdain; a slight.
noun:  (countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.

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