Meanings of scorned even in English

Ordinary modern architecture, scorned even by its creators, was about making things quick and cheap.

He scorned even to use his bowie knife, as he advanced toward the bandit at a half crouch.

Even before we reached Pelusium he had begun to avoid society, and scorned even to speak with his countryman Onuphis.

She said it defiantly and with an iciness which showed more plainly than in mere words that she scorned even an acquaintance with a demi-mondaine.