(n.) A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency.
(n.) The object of a contemptuous saying.
Example Sentences:
(1) The District became a byword for crime and drug abuse, while its “mayor for life” lived high on the hog and lurched cheerfully from one scandal to the next.
(2) The previous management was a byword for incompetence and the current incumbents are no better.
(3) It will not rest until "statutory" is a byword for "doesn't work".
(4) BitTorrent technology may be forever be a byword for online piracy in many quarters of the creative industries, but BitTorrent the company would rather be seen as a powerful legal tool for digital marketing.
(5) For 15 years, Matthew Shepard’s unspeakably brutal murder on a lonely prairie in Wyoming has been a byword for the very worst of American anti-gay bigotry and a rallying cry for a more tolerant, more inclusive society.
(6) But what they hanker for is a left that treats Israel the way it treats any other country with such a record – as a flawed society, but not one that is a byword for evil, that is deemed a “disease” (as it was by a caller to a 2010 show on Press TV , the Iranian state broadcaster, without objection from the host, Jeremy Corbyn), whose very right to exist is held to be conditional on good behaviour, a standard not applied to any other nation on Earth.
(7) His name is a byword to all students of public health and is familiar to readers of World Health Forum from our fortieth anniversary article about the early days of WHO (1) and the reminiscences of Szeming Sze (2).
(8) The film could be said to mark the moment when the favela – previously a byword for criminality, sickness and moral depravity – started to become “chic”.
(9) Bisexual has almost become a byword for anything goes, and more often than not bisexuals are thought of as attention-seeking.
(10) There again, there are plenty of people who work in this part of the economy and see it as a byword for autonomy.
(11) This is Stokes Croft, the gloriously bohemian corner of Bristol that has become a byword for the fight against the so-called "Big Four": Asda, Sainsbury's, Morrisons – and, of course, Tesco.
(12) The boy from Stepney not only survived but thrived, helping to lead the dramatic renaissance of a local education system that at the time had become a byword for failure but which has now become a beacon for the possibilities of public service reform, boasting some of Britain's highest achieving state secondary schools.
(13) Diepsloot has become a byword for criminal gangs, vigilante mob justice and xenophobic violence.
(14) The Mid Staffs care scandal, named after the NHS trust that runs the hospital, has prompted a series of official inquiries – the biggest of which reports on Wednesday – and has become a byword for the NHS at its very worst.
(15) Yet though the imposing high-rises became a byword for violence, alienation and crime, they will be missed by the many artists, writers and filmmakers who made it the subject of their work.
(16) Kobani was the Kurdish Stalingrad, and its defence became a byword for heroism.
(17) The town’s successful defence became a byword for heroism.
(18) The basic story is simple: people (and companies) fleeing London contribute to double-digit house-price inflation, rents soar and the character of renowned areas of the city – particularly St Paul’s, the byword for Bristol’s black community where Rees spent some of his childhood – is said to be under real threat.
(19) As fans held their breath, the Arrested Development movie became a byword for delayed gratification.
(20) The fact that this great stately edifice was constructed on Orkney, an island that has become a byword for remoteness, makes the site's discovery all the more remarkable.
Scorn
Definition:
(n.) Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.
(n.) An act or expression of extreme contempt.
(n.) An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision.
(n.) To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain.
(n.) To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride.
(v. i.) To scoff; to mock; to show contumely, derision, or reproach; to act disdainfully.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bannon scorns media in rare public appearance at CPAC Some observers suggested the move to block some organisations from the Friday briefing was an attempt to distract the public from controversial stories.
(2) There they are, drinking again.’” Harper is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey That scorn appears to have interrupted the clever student’s journey to the top of the class.
(3) Tayyab Mahmood Jafri, part of the large team of prosecution lawyers, heaped scorn on yet another discovery of explosives.
(4) She won’t apologize for whatever makes the New York Times treat her with middle-school levels of petty scorn .
(5) Ranjana Kumari, one of India's best known women's rights activists and director of the Centre for Social Research in Delhi, was scornful of Raghuvanshi's suggestion.
(6) And at the same time, speaking to black America, he branded Frazier an Uncle Tom, turning him into an object of derision and scorn.
(7) If the Westminster gang reneges on the pledges made in the campaign, they will discover that hell hath no fury like this nation scorned.” “We have never been an ordinary political party,” Salmond told his audience.
(8) Click here to view In The Other Woman, Cameron Diaz , Leslie Mann and Kate Upton team up to declare an all-out, scorched-earth War Of The Scorned Blondes against philandering husband Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
(9) And also leave aside the fact that the vast majority of so-called "national security professionals" have been disastrously wrong about virtually everything of significance over the last decade at least, including when most of them used their platforms and influence not only to persuade others to support the greatest crime of our generation - the aggressive attack on Iraq - but also to scorn war opponents as too Unserious to merit attention.
(10) Asking Alexander how genuine Hunt’s commitment to the NHS is, given his always having an NHS badge in his left lapel and regular praise of its staff, draws a scornful response: “I was quite struck by Dr Clare Gerada’s tweet about the junior doctors dispute, where she said: ‘Jeremy Hunt wears his NHS badge on his lapel, but junior doctors wear the NHS in their hearts.’ ” Plans to dissolve south London NHS trust anger neighbouring hospital Read more Hunt is one of the few senior figures in parliament who already knows what an effective opponent Alexander can be.
(11) Simpson, Semmelweis, Lister, and Ogston all found their ideas scorned by members of the profession, which may have feared being held responsible for deaths.
(12) When President Obama stands up and says - as he did when he addressed the nation in February 2011 about Libya - that "the United States will continue to stand up for freedom, stand up for justice, and stand up for the dignity of all people", it should trigger nothing but a scornful fit of laughter, not credulous support (by the way, not that anyone much cares any more, but here's what is happening after the Grand Success of the Libya Intervention: "Tribal and historical loyalties still run deep in Libya, which is struggling to maintain central government control in a country where armed militia wield real power and meaningful systems of law and justice are lacking after the crumbling of Gaddafi's eccentric personal rule").
(13) I called for a ban after San Bernardino, and was met with great scorn and anger but now, many are saying I was right to do so,” he boasted.
(14) I’m certain he, Ben Stiller and Alexander Payne were all justified in their scorn.
(15) Indeed, it may never be possible to establish beyond reasonable doubt who really created bitcoin.” Techcrunch.com reported the tech community was “pouring scorn” on reports that Wright is Nakamoto.
(16) Sceptics pour scorn on what this third Scotland stands for, but its political agenda is clear.
(17) We are probably more of an oil company today than we were [when Lord Browne ran the company until 2007],” Morrell said, adding that Browne had received “a lot of scorn from our colleagues” for his acceptance of climate science.
(18) This is why my Twitter and Facebook feeds – which consist mostly of people who brew, sell or drink beer – are scornful when I announce I'm working a one-off shift in the Rose and Crown, in Stoke Newington, north London.
(19) American right-wingers were sceptical and scornful.
(20) However, this evidence may have appeared stronger to the City of London police, HMRC and the Crown Prosecution Service when they first brought the charges than it did during the case, coming after revelations of phone-hacking and News Corporation's closure of the News of the World, which allowed Redknapp to continually express scorn and retort that he "did not have to tell the truth" to "that newspaper".