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Meanings of scorn the idea in English
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Usage of scorn the idea in English
1
True, the soldiers laughed to scorn the idea of any attack upon Quebec.
2
At first they pretended to laugh to scorn the idea of animals managing a farm for themselves.
3
We laugh to scorn the idea
4
How many of them will scorn the idea of it, as that of a man on the high road to insanity!
5
He laughed to scorn the idea that a mathematician, such as Whewell, could judge, as I maintained he could, of Goethe's views on light.
6
It is really remarkable how farmers and country people scorn the idea of walking either for pleasure or business, if "a lift" can be had.
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As a young man, Cage says ruefully, he scorned the idea of stability.
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We had somewhat scorned the idea of Watkins, as being one of Nature's show-places.
9
Scrooge, of course, scorns the idea that this day should be different from any other.
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But Labour Party leader Alan Kelly scorned the idea that the target could be met.
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Lass Number 1 scorned the idea: so Fred began.
12
As before, he scorned the idea that real good could be done by political agitation.
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He also scorned the idea of keeping a hotel.
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Her curious sense of honour scorned the idea.
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She scorned the idea, had "promised breakfast to fifty already."
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But my mother scorned the idea, and always treated the organist as belonging to the lower classes.