Object

• compromise: Alarmed, the Trust tried to unload; militant womanhood, thoroughly aroused, scorned compromise.

• idea: We laugh to scorn the very idea of exam revision.

• woman: And let no women scorn other women, for they might well be better than they.

• man: The boys scorn a man so drunk that he spouts nonsense and attracts a crowd around him.

Converse of object

• pour: Be careful about pouring scorn on someone's pet project.

• wither: Boris was right to go and expose himself to their withering scorn.

• heap: The latter path was championed by the nationalistic Slavophiles, who heaped scorn on the " decadent " West.

• attract: Other political parties have had similar experiences, yet don't attract the scorn of Ruth et al.

• have: She had great scorn for the notion that one should be able to laugh at oneself.

• cast: He cast scorn on the total prohibition of divorce and the idea of an indissoluble marriage bond.

Adjective modifier

• particular: She reserves particular scorn for shopping for clothes or shoes.

• much: Rivalry brings deceitful disguises, mistaken identities and scorn - so much scorn.

• great: She had great scorn for the notion that one should be able to laugh at oneself.

Preposition: on

• idea: All of them, for whatever reason, poured scorn on the idea that consuming dairy could be bad for health.

Modifying Another Word

• often: Anyone who takes the mind seriously in its own terms is often scorned for believing there is " a ghost in the machine.

• even: Derrida's words in The Post Card also perhaps generate in most readers the passions of disbelief and even scorn.

• not: There will never be the girl made that would not scorn you.

• utterly: Utterly scorning the democratic process, She saw off parliamentary candidates wholesale.

Noun used with modifier

• heap: However, to heap scorn upon the Welsh side is to rob the noble England squad of the credit due to them.

Infinitive complement

• take: But I scorn to take advantage of such a squirrel.