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Difference Between Scold and Scorn

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Scold

To reprimand or criticize harshly and usually angrily.

Scorn

A feeling and expression of contempt or disdain for someone or something
I do not wish to become the object of scorn

Scold

To express harsh or angry disapproval to someone.

Scorn

Feel or express contempt or disdain for
The minister scorned Labour's attempt to woo voters

Scold

One who persistently nags or criticizes
"As a critic gets older, he or she usually grows more tetchy and ... may even become a big-league scold" (James Wolcott).
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Scorn

Contempt or disdain felt toward a person or object considered despicable or unworthy
Viewed his rivals with scorn.

Scold

A person who habitually scolds, in particular a troublesome and angry woman.

Scorn

The expression of such an attitude in behavior or speech; derision
Heaped scorn upon his rivals.

Scold

(ambitransitive) To rebuke angrily.
I advise that you refrain from using that kind of language at home, lest your mother scold you.

Scorn

The state of being despised or dishonored
Held in scorn by his rivals.
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Scold

(ornithology) Of birds, to make harsh vocalisations in aggression.

Scorn

(Archaic) One spoken of or treated with contempt.

Scold

Of birds, to make vocalisations that resemble human scolding.

Scorn

To consider or treat as contemptible or unworthy
An artist who was scorned by conservative critics.

Scold

Misconstruction of scald

Scorn

To reject or refuse with derision
Scorned their offer of help.

Scold

To find fault or rail with rude clamor; to brawl; to utter harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke; to chide sharply or coarsely; - often with at; as, to scold at a servant.
Pardon me, lords, 't is the first time everI was forced to scold.

Scorn

To consider or reject (doing something) as beneath one's dignity
"She disapproved so heartily of Flora's plan that she would have scorned to assist in the concoction of a single oily sentence" (Stella Gibbons).

Scold

To chide with rudeness and clamor; to rate; also, to rebuke or reprove with severity.

Scorn

(transitive) To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.

Scold

One who scolds, or makes a practice of scolding; esp., a rude, clamorous woman; a shrew.
She is an irksome, brawling scold.

Scorn

(transitive) To reject, turn down.
He scorned her romantic advances.

Scold

A scolding; a brawl.

Scorn

(transitive) To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
She scorned to show weakness.

Scold

Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault

Scorn

(intransitive) To scoff, to express contempt.

Scold

Censure severely or angrily;
The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car
The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup

Scorn

(uncountable) Contempt or disdain.

Scold

Show one's unhappiness or critical attitude;
He scolded about anything that he thought was wrong
We grumbled about the increased work load

Scorn

(countable) A display of disdain; a slight.

Scorn

(countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.

Scorn

Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.
Scorn at first makes after love the more.
And wandered backward as in scorn,To wait an æon to be born.

Scorn

An act or expression of extreme contempt.
Every sullen frown and bitter scornBut fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.

Scorn

An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision.
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Scorn

To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain.
I scorn thy meat; 't would choke me.
This my long sufferance, and my day of grace,Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste.
We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.

Scorn

To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride.
His fellow, that lay by his bed's side,Gan for to laugh, and scorned him full fast.
To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously.

Scorn

To scoff; to mock; to show contumely, derision, or reproach; to act disdainfully.
He said mine eyes were black and my hair black,And, now I am remembered, scorned at me.

Scorn

Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike;
He was held in contempt
The despite in which outsiders were held is legendary

Scorn

Open disrespect for a person or thing

Scorn

Look down on with disdain;
He despises the people he has to work for
The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately

Scorn

Reject with contempt;
She spurned his advances

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