scorns
Treats with contempt
Scorns is the verb form of scorn, meaning to treat with contempt or disdain.
Someone who scorns something dismisses it as unworthy of attention or respect: She scorns conventional wisdom, He scorns anyone who disagrees with him.
The noun scorn refers to the contempt itself: They heaped scorn on the proposal.
Openly resists or challenges
- floutsDisregards with disdain
- disregardsFails to consider
- challengesDifficulties requiring effort
- ignoresRefuses to acknowledge
laughs at · braves · resists · mocks · dismisses · disobeys · opposes · confronts
Views with contempt
- despisesFeels intense aversion toward
- mocksRidicules through imitation
- sneersContemptuous facial expressions
- ridiculesSubjects to contemptuous laughter
belittles · derides · dismisses · rejects · spurns · looks down on · condescends · disparages
Declines to accept
- rebuffsRejects bluntly or dismissively
- spurnsRejects with disdain
- declinesRefuses or diminishes
- rejectsRefuses or discards
dismisses · turns away · repudiates · shuns · ignores · brushes off · waves off · snubs
defies
Openly resists or challenges
- floutsDisregards with disdain
- disregardsFails to consider
- challengesDifficulties requiring effort
ignores · laughs at · braves · resists · mocks · dismisses · disobeys · opposes · confronts · dares
disdains
Views with contempt
- despisesFeels intense aversion toward
- mocksRidicules through imitation
- sneersContemptuous facial expressions
ridicules · belittles · derides · dismisses · rejects · spurns · looks down on · condescends · disparages · slights
refuses
Declines to accept
rejects · dismisses · turns away · repudiates · shuns · ignores · brushes off · waves off · snubs · cold-shoulders
- mocksmocks, teases, ridicules, taunts, jeers
- disapprovaldisapproval, scowl, disapprove, disapproves, frown
- scorned loverPerson romantically rejected
- scorned woman
- woman scorned
- heap scorn
scorn, scornful, scorned, scornfully, scorning, scornfulness, scorner, scorners