scorner

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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Inherited from Middle English scornere, scorner; equivalent to scorn + -er.

Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground! — Poems Teachers Ask For: Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans", Various
Scorner of others, but enchained By every base desire, By thee each duty is disdained Which time and place require. — The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse, Valmiki
With you all the cynics of history; with us all the "scorners of the ground" from the world's beginning until now!' — Robert Elsmere, Humphry, Mrs. Ward

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