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In many inner-city neighbourhoods, children emulate gangster culture and profess scorn for those who succeed in school.
This is a volume bulging with examples of wasteful use of public money, arousing laughter and scorn in equal measure.
The timidity of the boy afraid to fight, a common object of scorn for schoolyard bullies, was recast as a clinical pathology.
His passionate advocacy has earned him the love of coma-affected families, and the scorn of the medical profession in equal measure.
As much as I valued the path of Eastern spirituality and meditation, I was uncomfortable with its subtle scorn for the physical world.
What I hope is the people of Gravesham show their scorn for him by not going to his show.
That they are able to pour out their scorn for the West is a rather good demonstration of the freedom of speech they enjoy.
Even the junior senator from North Carolina felt obliged to express her scorn for these malefactors of great wealth.
Such high-minded scorn for the '90s and the general affluence and calm they represented is an eminently understandable sentiment.
In fact, the reason I remember this particular presentation at all is the scorn, contempt, and derision that followed.
He reserves most of his scorn for the film-makers of his own generation who, as he sees it, betray their own talent.
While the commercial provided exposure, it drew the scorn of genuine punkers.
My smart-arsed response to this questioning is often met with absolute scorn.
If the right-wingers disdain Lincoln for being too aggressively antislavery, the left-wingers scorn him for not being antislavery enough.
But U.S. media coverage matched the bipartisan refusal by leaders in Congress to do anything but scorn the offer.
Without being triumphalist or pouring scorn on media forecasts, he admitted the build-up to the game worked out perfectly for him.
I really do not want to discourage, or to pour scorn on, Mr Hide's hopes in that regard.
In fact, he pours scorn on the idea that any such thing could really exist.
She pours scorn on plans to capitalise on the growing movement for father's rights.
This was a phrase that Wallis would pour scorn on when he attacked Hobbes' ideas.
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Examples from Classical Literature
To be exposed in the midst of his misery to the scorn of a despiser of his art was too much for his exhausted patience.
I sometimes think scorn of us as a nation that we so gladly and peaceably put our necks beneath the sceptre of such an atomy.
And now she looked at him beseechingly, as if to beg him only not to scorn her gift.
She sent for me betimes, and I went in fear and trembling of her wrath and scorn.
His uneasiness, his exasperation, his scorn were blunted at last by all these trying hours.
This he does vilely, and earns not only the contempt of his brethren, but the amused scorn of the Briton.
They will hunt him out of the village, they will refuse him food, they will make him a byword, a scorn.
And he put his joy in the scorn of men, as the miser shuts his gold in a cedarn chest, locked with a triple lock.
Who has not been stirred to scorn and mirth at the very thought of a chocolate soldier!
Sally's conceitedness soared into the air and frowned down upon the faltering Gaga with something like scorn.
It is a happiness which they who smile in scorn at their credulity can never enjoy.
Bitter scorn is poured forth on Samson whom the high priest insultingly invites to sing a love-song to Dalila.
We should be defenceless before his arguments and indifferent to his scorn.
Their insatiability is to be understood in the sense that satiety does not make them scorn what satiates them.
He could not but look at her with disconcertment, as she sat breathing bitterness and scorn, and staring leagues away.
South looked upon Sherlock with profound scorn as a sciolist, and hated him most cordially as a heretic and a political renegade.
There are those in the world who scorn our vision of human dignity and freedom.
But Hester was far less ready to scorn on her own account than on the part of another.
It seemed as if she grew an inch taller in her scorn of the Inspector's saying.
Even here it is a fine wide stream, and seems to scorn the beggarly ditch that drudges like a pack-horse by its side.
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