Difference between Despise and Scorn

DESPISE vs SCORN: NOUN

Contempt or disdain felt toward a person or object considered despicable or unworthy.
The expression of such an attitude in behavior or speech; derision.
The state of being despised or dishonored.
One spoken of or treated with contempt.
Mockery; derision; contempt; disdain.
The expression of mockery, derision, contempt, or disdain; a scoff; a slight.
Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
Open disrespect for a person or thing
An object, of derision, contempt, or disdain; a thing to be or that is treated with contempt; a reproach or disgrace.
A display of disdain; A slight.
Contempt or disdain.
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 regard as worthy of scorn or contempt; to disdain.
To deride; to make a mock of; to ridicule as contemptible.

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

To regard with contempt or scorn.
To dislike intensely; loathe.
To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of.

To consider or treat as contemptible or unworthy.
To reject or refuse with derision: : despise.
To consider or reject (doing something) as beneath one's dignity.
To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride.
To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain.

To hold in scorn or contempt; disdain; despise: as, to scorn a hypocrite; to scorn all meanness.
To bring to scorn; treat with scorn or contempt; make a mock of; deride.
To bring into insignificance or into contempt.
Synonyms Contemn, Despise, Scorn, Disdain. Contemn, scorn, and disdain less often apply to persons. In this they differ from the corresponding nouns and from despise, which apply with equal freedom to persons and things. Contemn is the generic term, expressing the fact; it is not so strong as contempt. To despise is to look down upon with strong contempt from a superior position of some sort. To scorn is to have an extreme and passionate contempt for. To disdain is to have a high-minded abhorrence of, or a proud and haughty contempt of. See arrogance.
To feel scorn or contempt.
To point with scorn; scoff; jeer: generally with at.

Resent, Revile, Dislike, Abhor, Haten, Disregard, Flout, Defy, Overlook, Hate, Loathe, Detest, Contemn, Scorn, Disdain

Deride, Mockery, Denigration, Loathing, Ridicule, Derision, Freeze off, Contemn, Pooh pooh, Turn down, Reject, Spurn, Despise, Contempt, Disdain

Oppress, Abominate, Deride, Resent, Revile, Disregard, Flout, Defy, Overlook, Hate, Loathe, Detest, Contemn, Scorn, Disdain

Flout, Disregard, Prejudice, Disrespect, Defiance, Deride, Mockery, Ridicule, Derision, Contemn, Turn down, Reject, Despise, Contempt, Disdain

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.
Men would despise Lazarus, but God justified him.
Today, we despise those women, as Graves did.
Chinaman whom other Chinamen all despise and fear.
Party voters who vote consistently, politicians truly despise.
It follows that when we despise and neglect the church by forsaking the assembly we likewise despise and neglect the Lord.
We immediately prize some attitudes and despise others, in the sense that we directly prize and despise them without first appraising them instrumentally.
Despise not what the Holy Ghost esteems, lest thou despise the Holy Ghost himself.
And I now despise what I did, and I despise the way I was raised, too, with lies of all sorts.
To despise them is to despise God and man.

It subjects her to malice, scorn, and insult.
This typical German proposal was declined with scorn.
Let nobody blame him: his scorn I approve.
Predictably, the liberal intelligentsia has responded with scorn.
In Europe they are just laughed to scorn.
Envy Up, Scorn Down: How Status Divides Us.
And that idea will be laughed to scorn.
As for the other insinuations I scorn them.
Should you scorn seafood in the American Midwest?
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Who satirized Virginia Woolf's highbrow scorn in the article Highbrow Lowbrow Middlebrow?
What's the point in calling Miniver Cheevy a child of scorn?
What is the meaning of they treated his suggestion with scorn?
What happened to scorn's symbiote after Venom defeated Carnage?
Did the Impressionists get a fair share of critical scorn?