noun

1. Contempt or disdain.

2. A display of disdain; a slight.

3. An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.

verb

1. To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.

2. To reject, turn down.

   “He scorned her romantic advances.”

3. To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.

   “She scorned to show weakness.”

Synonyms: deride, mock, ridicule, scoff, sneer