Scorn at first makes after love the more. Shak.

And wandered backward as in scorn,
To wait an æon to be born. Emerson.

Every sullen frown and bitter scorn
But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn. Dryden.

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. Ps. xliv. 13.

To think scorn, to regard as worthy of scorn or contempt; to disdain. "He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone." Esther iii. 6. -- To laugh to scorn, to deride; to make a mock of; to ridicule as contemptible.

Syn. -- Contempt; disdain; derision; contumely; despite; slight; dishonor; mockery.

I scorn thy meat; 't would choke me. Shak.

This my long sufferance, and my day of grace,
Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste. Milton.

We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful. C. J. Smith.

His fellow, that lay by his bed's side,
Gan for to laugh, and scorned him full fast. Chaucer.

To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously. Shak.

Syn. -- To contemn; despise; disdain. See Contemn.

He said mine eyes were black and my hair black,
And, now I am remembered, scorned at me. Shak.