Scold vs. Scorn — What's the Difference?

To reprimand or criticize harshly and usually angrily.

A feeling and expression of contempt or disdain for someone or something

To express harsh or angry disapproval to someone.

Feel or express contempt or disdain for

One who persistently nags or criticizes

Contempt or disdain felt toward a person or object considered despicable or unworthy

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

The expression of such an attitude in behavior or speech; derision

(ambitransitive) To rebuke angrily.

The state of being despised or dishonored

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

(Archaic) One spoken of or treated with contempt.

Of birds, to make vocalisations that resemble human scolding.

To consider or treat as contemptible or unworthy

Misconstruction of scald

To reject or refuse with derision

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.

To consider or reject (doing something) as beneath one's dignity

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

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

One who scolds, or makes a practice of scolding; esp., a rude, clamorous woman; a shrew.

(transitive) To reject, turn down.

A scolding; a brawl.

(transitive) To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.

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

(intransitive) To scoff, to express contempt.

Censure severely or angrily;

(uncountable) Contempt or disdain.

Show one's unhappiness or critical attitude;

(countable) A display of disdain; a slight.

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

Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.

An act or expression of extreme contempt.

An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision.

To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain.

To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride.

To scoff; to mock; to show contumely, derision, or reproach; to act disdainfully.

Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike;

Open disrespect for a person or thing

Look down on with disdain;

Reject with contempt;