scorned

[ skawrnd ]

adjective

1. treated or regarded with contempt, scoffing, or disdain:

   Few believed he’d find an audience, but with the release of his hit single and video last year, the once scorned act has now become popular with fans and critics.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of scorn.

Other Words From

• un·scorned adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of scorned¹

scorn ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

On the Democratic side, Roosevelt and Kamala Harris were scorned by critics as intellectual lightweights, despite having had successful careers in government — Roosevelt as a New York state senator, assistant Navy secretary under Woodrow Wilson, and governor of New York; Harris as San Francisco district attorney, attorney general of California, U.S. senator and vice president.

From Los Angeles Times

That reform has been scorned by critics who claim there was a rise in property crimes and lawlessness after its passage, despite a recent think tank report that found little evidence to suggest Proposition 47 is directly to blame for fluctuations in property and drug crimes in the decade since.

From Los Angeles Times

But the EU's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, scorned the US warning.

From BBC

Traditional Republicans are disdained and scorned by the vast majority of self-identified Republicans.

From Salon

No chief executive, a stop-gap chairman, a former chairman scorned and creating mischief in the media, a playing squad with considerable holes in it and, at the same time, Celtic full of money and momentum and apparently disappearing over the horizon.

From BBC

Related Words

• abominable
• inadmissible
• loathsome
• objectionable
• troublesome
• unsatisfactory
• unsavory
• unwanted
• unwelcome