(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".
Twit
Definition:
(v. t.) To vex by bringing to notice, or reminding of, a fault, defect, misfortune, or the like; to revile; to reproach; to upbraid; to taunt; as, he twitted his friend of falsehood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet the twits that think this stuff are inheriting the Earth.
(2) Hackney Council has actually done a good job of improving the environment and by and large the borough is a fairly good place to live and not nearly as overrun with snotty upper-middle class twits as other gentrified boroughs.
(3) Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) BREAKING NEWS: I'm now a Twit.
(4) Keith Field, 76, a former builder who stops to chat outside the British Heart Foundation charity shop, says he's amazed Huhne was "such a twit.
(5) When I first met her around Camden she was just some twit in a pink satin jacket shuffling round bars with mutual friends, most of whom were in cool indie bands or peripheral Camden figures Withnail-ing their way through life on impotent charisma.
(6) Two black males winning the individual categories, don't imagine that's happened before... 8.24pm: From the twits: marielalaa RT @horrorrrrr: I LOVE YOU JAY Z HAVE MY BABIES #britawards 8.29pm: Winner!
(7) Macmillan was transformed overnight from "Supermac" into a doddering old Edwardian twit.
(8) While this clown's latest assertion of his alpha-maleness, in debased imitation of Bertram Wooster's misadventures, will undoubtedly add to female consternation about a Drones Club government whose leader insults women and twits his rival for being insufficiently "macho", Mitchell's contribution to the public understanding of hegemonic masculinity also deserves a mention.
(9) "Inane stuff about what twits are having for breakfast.
(10) Photograph: Amy Watters What about lunch Cafe Twit sells jacket potatoes (from £3.20), soup (from £3.80), panini (from £3.40).
(11) The consensus that social media is a powerful platform for youth engagement: Trisha Tahmasbi (@Trisha_Tahmasbi) @LetGirlsLead Platforms that allow youth to communicate through photos: FB, Twit, Instagram, Tumblr & snapchat, are among favs.
(12) Johnson stood by his comments on Monday, describing the reaction as an “artificial media twit storm”.
(13) The peer calls Boris Johnson “a joke” and a “public school upper-class twit”, and describes Scottish MP Alex Salmond, the former SNP leader, as a “silly, pompous prat”.
(14) Or there's the irresistably named Cafe Twit at the Roald Dahl museum.
(15) Tedious headline cliche you can expect "Twit and Twitterer" for pictures of her and Gordon, plus a thousand variations on "Don't mention 'im indoors".
(16) 7.58pm: On the twits - @JamesRogers79 Sitting down to watch the Brits tonight.
(17) Fortunately for the well-being of Gogarty and Moir, virtuous fury appears to be more capricious than government exclusion orders: the moving finger tweets and, having twit, seeks out another enemy of the public good.
(18) 9.53pm: She didn't hashtag this, but I've still nicked it from the Twits: @gracedent robbie.
(19) Look and listen out for The "twit-twoo" of tawny owls.
(20) England had become a nation of penalty-missers, contract-outers, public-school twits and twats, bigots and Bullingdon club bullies, snarling bulldogs and rapacious bankers.A country in which even Labour leaders preached deregulation, prized unfettered wealth and puckered up to the world’s media magnates.