And the peasant began to cut capers, as though to amuse his Generals, because they had been kind to him, an idle sluggard, and had not scorned his peasant toil.
If his claim to immortality rested on no other foundation than these, it would still be incontestable, for all previous Russian writers had scorned such commonplaces.
The clothes found many customers to buy them, but the bodies being, from the want of all exposure and exercise, white and tender-skinned, were derided and scorned as unserviceable.
But he took it heinously, either that he was passionately fond of Aspasia, or because he looked upon himself as affronted and scornedby his father.
Had he pestered her in her theater days and, because she scorned him, had he been responsible for the gossip three years ago?
From the first he scorned my arguments and suggestions.
He scorned himself for the half-appealing tone in which the salutation was made.
It was this steeper side which faced Wildtree, and Percy would have scornedto approach the monster from any other quarter.
He may have sunk low, not because he himself was low, but because in his miserable feud with all the world he scorned not to share the lot of others as miserable as himself.
The public would understand and would speak out, and the reptile would be scorned and trodden under foot.
When Lord Alston had come to him with his caution he had scorned his old friend and almost driven him from his door.
No; she would have scorned to betray any woman; and that woman whom she had not betrayed should have shown the same feeling towards her.
Her authority was defied, her officerscorned and insulted, her youngest child perverted by the obstinate elder brother.
But they laughed at his flattery, they scorned his bad manners, they yawned soon at his sermons; the more their mother favoured him, the more they disliked him; and so the tutor and the pupils cordially hated each other.
His wife scorned the idea and reasoned wisely with him: probably his father and mother were dead; and even if he should ever see them again, through what chance, to what end, would he arrive at this abomination?
But the ocean scorned him and the flames spared him.
But Julian scorned these convenient contrivances; he preferred to hunt away from the crowd, alone with his steed and his falcon.
She had always scorned dolls; only once had she been presented with a doll, and within the day it had been mercilessly drowned.
She scorned tears; no physical hurt could break down her sturdy self-control.
Without being aware of it they formed a new sect, which scorned intercourse with the Talmud Jews.
Boldly he attempted to give an answer to the question: What is this highly-praised and deeply-scorned Judaism?
I have scorned this opportunism all my life, and now I regret having scorned it.
But Hannah scorned the outlandish lingo, and had a poor opinion of the nation as a whole.
Then he could reverse present experience by scorning those who had scorned him.
To us whose fathers scorned to bear The paltry menace of a chain; To us, whose boast is loud and long Of holy Liberty and Light; Say, shall these writhing slaves of Wrong Plead vainly for their plundered Right?
Wild as the fruits he scornedto till, These vales the idle Indian trod; Nor knew the glad, creative skill, The joy of him who toils with God.
But she scorned that; she was minded to show him what a little woman could do.
Bill walked to the end of the wharf, where he stood staring at the river, raging with and almost bursting with questions that he scorned to ask.
Indeed there was mockery in the smile with which she stared down to him from her frame, down to him and past him as if she scorned in him all men forever.
Yet, as if he scorned the struggles of the stallion, he brought into play the heavy quirt which had been handed him as he mounted.
Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit That could be moved to smile at anything.
Diana had no need, perhaps, of a French dressmaker, but it is an open question whether she would have scorned them.
On the strength of his love alone she had pinned her faith, discarded and scorned all other help.
They trampled on the defeated and scorned what they could not understand.
Actors were looked down upon in Rome, but Roscius the tragedian was a great friend of Sulla's, for he scorned all such notions as unreal.
Originally a Greek settlement, its people were famous for the luxury and elegance of their houses and lives, and scorned the rude, hardy, and simple Romans as untutored barbarians.
Can he make God deny Himself, and become favourable to one who has scornedor sinned away His Holy Spirit?
While he was received cordially by most, there was a section that despised him, that scorned the idea of his delivering the nation, and, in token of their contempt, brought him no presents.
The tired years go And leave the great love weeping for a grave, Scorned and unburied, 'neath the open sky.
For you and me, Beloved, crowned with Spring, Catching Love's flowers from off the lap of Time, What are the songs my voice has scorned to sing?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scorned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
