Word Meanings - SCORNY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Deserving scorn; paltry.

Related words: (words related to SCORNY)

• DESERVEDNESS
  Meritoriousness.
• DESERVE
  1. To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise. God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. Job xi. 6. John
• SCORNER
  One who scorns; a despiser; a contemner; specifically, a scoffer at religion. "Great scorners of death." Spenser. Superly he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly. Prov. iii. 34.
• DESERVEDLY
  According to desert ; justly.
• SCORNY
  Deserving scorn; paltry.
• DESERVING
  Desert; merit. A person of great deservings from the republic. Swift.
• SCORN
  eschar, of German origin; cf. OHG. skern mockery, skern to mock; but 1. Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which aprings from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object. Scorn at first makes after love
• SCORNFUL
  1. Full of scorn or contempt; contemptuous; disdainful. Scornful of winter's frost and summer's sun. Prior. Dart not scornful glances from those eyes. Shak. 2. Treated with scorn; exciting scorn. The scornful mark of every open eye. Shak. Syn.
• PALTRY
  Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold. Cowper. The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost. Byron. Syn. -- See Contemptible. (more info) E. paltry refuse, rubbish, LG. paltering ragged,
• DESERVER
  One who deserves.
• BESCORN
  To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer.
• UNDESERVER
  One of no merit; one who is nor deserving or worthy. Shak.
• UNDESERVE
  To fail to deserve. Milton.
• OUTSCORN
  To confront, or subdue, with greater scorn. Shak.