Definition, Betydelse & Anagram | Engelska ordet SCORNING

Definition av SCORNING

1. böjningsform av scorn
2. presensparticip av scorn

Exempel på hur man kan använda SCORNING i en mening

• Unlike much of the nobility in his time, Emperor Taizong was a frank rationalist and scholar of logic and scientific reason, openly scorning superstitions and claims of signs from the heavens.
• An important part is his 1890 political collection of short stories Skyer ("Clouds"), a biting description of Denmark under the authoritarian semi-dictatorship of the Conservatives both condemning the oppressors and scorning the Danes’ lack of disaffection.

• Demetrius, who seems to have been placed by nature in our times that he might prove that we could neither corrupt him nor be corrected by him; a man of consummate wisdom, though he himself disclaimed it, constant to the principles which he professed, of an eloquence worthy to deal with the mightiest subjects, scorning mere prettinesses and verbal niceties, but expressing with infinite spirit, the ideas which inspired it.

• In contrast, Ferguson's Jill is an active, independent and witty character who defies post-war expectations for English girls by scorning ladylike pursuits, treating boys her own age as equals, and working hard to achieve her goals.
• If anything, he is scorning the self-coronation of lesser funk royals and inviting his fickle public to spurn him if it dare.
• " NME described it as "a strangely even-handed song which starts out scorning local townies then appears to absolve them at the end of the song.
• This deluded later scholars in both questioning the author's literary abilities and scorning the factual content of the work which now much more resembled a collection of short droll stories than a serious work of genealogy and history.
• Article 273 of Jordan's Penal Code criminalizes "scorning or reviling any of the Prophets" with imprisonment for up to three years.

• A little, thin, angular, wiry figure, long past the bloom of youth, scorning all pretensions to the conventionalities of society or the rostrum, she is pre-eminently the champion and exponent of the working-women of New England.

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