The difference between Deride and Scorn
When used as verbs, deride means to harshly mock, whereas scorn means to feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody.
Scorn is also noun with the meaning: contempt or disdain.
check bellow for the other definitions of Deride and Scorn
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Deride as a verb (transitive):
To harshly mock; ridicule.
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Scorn as a verb (transitive):
To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
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Scorn as a verb (transitive):
To reject, turn down.
Examples:
"He scorned her romantic advances."
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Scorn as a verb (transitive):
To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
Examples:
"She scorned to show weakness."
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Scorn as a verb (intransitive):
To scoff, to express contempt.
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Scorn as a noun (uncountable):
Contempt or disdain.
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Scorn as a noun (countable):
A display of disdain; a slight.
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Scorn as a noun (countable):
An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.