Sentences with 'scorn'
Example sentences and phrases with the word scorn and other words derived from it.
• « Thus, Christians used scorn and contempt to vilify worshippers of other gods - "heathen" indicated that the non-Christian was both ignorant and foolish, even if he was a member of the Roman elite. »
• « This decline of basic schooling in Europe inspired the scorn of later Renaissance thinkers, who wrote off the period between the fall of Rome and the beginning of the Renaissance around 1300 CE as the "Dark Ages". »
• « Butler's campaign went through years of failure and scorn before finally succeeding: the Contagious Diseases Act was repealed and the age of consent for girls was raised from twelve to sixteen. »