scorning
Treating with derision
Scorning is treating someone or something with contempt or disdain—openly showing that you consider them beneath regard.
It suggests active rejection rather than mere indifference: Scorning their advice, she went ahead with the plan.
The word carries a sense of deliberate dismissal, often with an element of superiority.
Contemptuous mockery
- sneeringExpressing scorn facially
- jeeringVocal public mockery
- tauntingInsulting to provoke
- scoffingMocking with contempt
ridiculing · sarcasm · satire · lampoon · parody · caricature · jibe · gibe
Demeaning air of superiority
- haughtinessDisdainful sense of superiority
- arroganceExcessive self-importance
- snobberyPretentious social superiority
- superciliousnessScornful sense of superiority
disdainfulness · contemptuousness · patronizing · high-handedness · lordliness · imperiousness · pomposity · aloofness
Contemptuously refusing or dismissing
- rebuffingCurtly refusing or dismissing
- dismissingRemoving from position
- repudiatingFormally refusing to acknowledge
- refusingDeclining to accept
snubbing · cold-shouldering · excluding · shunning · slighting · disregarding · ignoring · ostracizing
Scornful disregard
- loathingIntense, settled disgust
- revulsionIntense physical disgust
- repugnanceIntense distaste or disgust
- abhorrenceExtreme hatred or disgust
detestation · disgust · hatred · animosity · hostility · spite · venom · malevolence
Unfavorable opinion expressed
- condemnationSevere disapproval expressed formally
- censureFormal institutional disapproval
- criticismJudgment of faults
- denouncingPublicly declaring disapproval
reproaching · deprecating · faultfinding · censorious · condemning · derisive · disapproving · critical
derision
Contemptuous mockery
scoffing · ridiculing · sarcasm · satire · lampoon · parody · caricature · jibe · gibe · raillery
condescension
Demeaning air of superiority
- haughtinessDisdainful sense of superiority
- arroganceExcessive self-importance
- snobberyPretentious social superiority
superciliousness · disdainfulness · contemptuousness · patronizing · high-handedness · lordliness · imperiousness · pomposity · aloofness · self-importance
spurning
Contemptuously refusing or dismissing
- rebuffingCurtly refusing or dismissing
- dismissingRemoving from position
- repudiatingFormally refusing to acknowledge
refusing · snubbing · cold-shouldering · excluding · shunning · slighting · disregarding · ignoring · ostracizing · rebuff
disdain
Scornful disregard
- loathingIntense, settled disgust
- revulsionIntense physical disgust
- repugnanceIntense distaste or disgust
abhorrence · detestation · disgust · hatred · animosity · hostility · spite · venom · malevolence · bitterness
disapproval
Unfavorable opinion expressed
- condemnationSevere disapproval expressed formally
- censureFormal institutional disapproval
- criticismJudgment of faults
denouncing · reproaching · deprecating · faultfinding · censorious · condemning · derisive · disapproving · critical · reproachful
- disrespectinsulting, belittling, demeaning, mocking, ridiculing
- mockerymockery, ridiculing, jeers, jeering, jibes
- shamingshaming, humiliating, disgracing, dishonoring, degrading
- rejectionrejection, reject, denial, refuse, refusal
- rejection wordsrejected, rebuffed, spurned, snubbed, refused
scorningrevering
Regarding with deep respect
admiring · venerating · respecting · esteeming · honoring
scorn, scornful, scorned, scornfully, scorns, scornfulness, scorner, scorners