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seducing, Slang make out, get laid: Did you score with Ava last
night?
scorn n. 1 contumely, contempt, contemptuousness, disdain,
deprecation; rejection, dismissal: He treated their demands
with the utmost scorn. 2 mockery, derision, derisiveness,
sneering, ridicule, scoffing, jeering, taunting: The crowd's
scorn was directed at the politicians who failed to deliver what
they had promised.
--v. 3 reject, rebuff, disown, disavow, disregard, ignore,
shun, snub, flout, contemn, treat with or hold in contempt, have
no use for, disdain, spurn, despise, turn up one's nose at, curl
one's lip at, look down on or upon, look down one's nose at,
thumb one's nose at, Colloq pooh-pooh, put down, Brit cock a
snook at: His parents offered to finance his education, but he
scorned their help. 4 mock (at), deride, sneer at, ridicule,
scoff at, jeer at, taunt, poke fun at, make fun of, laugh at:
People scorned him because he said the earth was round.
scornful adj. contumelious, contemptuous, disdainful, deprecative,
disparaging, derisory, derisive, snide, supercilious, mocking,
sneering, scoffing, haughty, overweening, high-handed, superior,
Colloq snooty, Slang snotty: The people were scornful of his
attempt to reassure them, and continued to demand action.
scoundrel n. villain, rogue, wretch, good-for-nothing, scapegrace,
blackguard, rascal, scamp, cur, Old-fashioned bounder, cad,
knave, Colloq heel, Slang louse, Brit rotter: Politicians tend
to treat their opponents as liars and scoundrels.
scour v. 1 scrub, clean, cleanse, wash, rub, abrade, polish, burnish,
buff, shine: The pots were scoured until they shone. 2 scrape
(about or around), rake, comb, turn upside down, search,
ransack: I scoured the shops looking in vain for the coffee
filters you wanted.
scourge n. 1 curse, misfortune, bane, evil, affliction, plague,
adversity, torment, misery, woe: He questions whether AIDS
should be considered the scourge of the 20th century. Was it
Attila who proved himself the scourge of Rome? 2 whip, lash,
cat-o'-nine-tails, knout, quirt, horsewhip, bull-whip: They saw
fit to punish themselves with scourges.