Spurn vs. Scorn

Spurnverb

(ambitransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.

Scornverb

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

Spurnverb

(transitive) To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.

Scornverb

(transitive) To reject, turn down.

‘He scorned her romantic advances.’;

Spurnverb

(transitive) To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)

Scornverb

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

‘She scorned to show weakness.’;

Spurnverb

To kick or toss up the heels.

Scornverb

(intransitive) To scoff, to express contempt.

Spurnnoun

An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.

Scornnoun

(uncountable) Contempt or disdain.

Spurnnoun

A kick; a blow with the foot.

Scornnoun

(countable) A display of disdain; a slight.

Spurnnoun

(obsolete) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.

Scornnoun

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

Spurnnoun

(mining) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.

Scornnoun

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.’;

Spurnverb

To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.

‘[The bird] with his foot will spurn adown his cup.’; ‘I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.’;

Scornnoun

An act or expression of extreme contempt.

‘Every sullen frown and bitter scornBut fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.’;

Spurnverb

To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with contempt.

‘What safe and nicely I might well delayBy rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn.’; ‘Domestics will pay a more cheerful service when they find themselves not spurned because fortune has laid them at their master's feet.’;

Scornnoun

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.’;

Spurnverb

To kick or toss up the heels.

‘The miller spurned at a stone.’; ‘The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns.’;

Scornverb

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.’;

Spurnverb

To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance.

‘Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image.’;

Scornverb

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.’;

Spurnnoun

A kick; a blow with the foot.

‘What defense can properly be used in such a despicable encounter as this but either the slap or the spurn?’;

Scornverb

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.’;

Spurnnoun

Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.

‘The insolence of office, and the spurnsThat patient merit of the unworthy takes.’;

Scornnoun

lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike;

‘he was held in contempt’; ‘the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary’;

Spurnnoun

A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.

Scornnoun

open disrespect for a person or thing

Spurnverb

reject with contempt;

‘She spurned his advances’;

Scornverb

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’;

Spurnverb

reject with disdain or contempt

‘he spoke gruffly, as if afraid that his invitation would be spurned’;

Scornverb

reject with contempt;

‘She spurned his advances’;

Spurnverb

strike, tread, or push away with the foot

‘with one touch of my feet, I spurn the solid Earth’;

Scornnoun

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

‘I do not wish to become the object of scorn’;

Spurnnoun

an act of spurning

‘it is a spurn of God's sovereignty, and a slight of his goodness’;

Scornnoun

a person viewed with contempt or disdain

‘a scandal and a scorn to all who look on thee’;

Spurn

Spurn is a narrow sand tidal island located off the tip of the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England that reaches into the North Sea and forms the north bank of the mouth of the Humber Estuary. It was a spit with a semi-permanent connection to the mainland, but a storm in 2013 made the road down to the end of Spurn impassable to vehicles at high tide.The island is over 3 miles (5 km) long, almost half the width of the estuary at that point, and as little as 50 yards (46 m) wide in places.

Scornnoun

a statement or gesture indicating contempt

‘I met with scoffs, I met with scorns’;

Scornverb

feel or express contempt or disdain for

‘the minister scorned Labour's attempt to woo voters’;

Scornverb

reject (something) in a contemptuous way

‘a letter scorning his offer of intimacy’;

Scornverb

refuse to do something because one is too proud

‘at her lowest ebb, she would have scorned to stoop to such tactics’;