As we have just seen, the scorner refuses to learn.

The scorner of her love should pay the price upon the fiery altar.

A scorner of such things in my normal moments.

The Scorner has not set his seal upon you.

The schemes of folly are sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.

The scorner blunders on but blames other people and his bad luck for his lack of success.

Assi was making his way toward the baths, when he was assaulted by a "scorner."

Leaning forward, the Chief Scorner seized a key-like handle that seemed to be attached to his nose and turned it straight upward.

Drummond noted he was "a great lover and praiser of himself, a contemner and scorner of others".

Scorner of grey hairs, food-niggard, starver of wanderers.

Satisfied that his Chief Scorner had subdued the intruders, Mogodore motioned for Smerker to close the sauce box.

An early and frequent scorner was Meg Greenfield, a columnist for Newsweek and editor of the Washington Post editorial page.

Time Magazine said "[T]he book is rather a mediocre feat for the celebrated scorner of average men, literary grace, Pulitzer Prizes."

In 1763 The Critical Review complained that "many false interpretations, ambiguous phrases, obsolete words and indelicate expressions...excite the derision of the scorner".

Ben Jonson was a killer, who also betrayed Naipaul-like tendencies, being described as “a great lover and praiser of himself, a contemner and scorner of others”.

Next to Wagarag lounged Bragga, Captain of the Guard and Smerker, Chief Scorner of the realm.

Frank is a little late in joining this throng in Mr. Ives’s version: Man scorner and man trap meet cute by exchanging bubbling streams of poisonous verse.

It tends to be grouped with a series of plays from Mankind onwards such as Gentleness and Nobility, Magnificence, Youth and Hick Scorner.

An addition to the draft manuscript says: 'He [Dorlas] had also been Harathor's friend, and a scorner of Brandir while Harathor desired to oust him.'

Passion for power: the wicked gadfly which is mounted on the vainest peoples; the scorner of all uncertain virtue; which rideth on every horse and on every pride.

For he who is scorned (nevertheless may) sleep with an easy mind, awake with an easy mind, and with an easy mind walk here among men; but the scorner utterly perishes.

Every twice-born man, who, relying on the Institutes of dialectics, treats with contempt those two sources (of the law), must be cast out by the virtuous, as an atheist and a scorner of the Veda.

That she, the strong-minded Amazon, the lion-hearted wielder of the sword of justice, the indomitable scorner of men should thus have been cozened, baffled, bamboozled like any groundling or village dolt was inconceivable.

Four hundred years ago, Ben Jonson's traveling companion William Drummond described the playwright as "a great lover and praiser of himself, a contemer and scorner of others, given rather to lose a friend than a jest."

He rose, descended, met The scorner in the castle court, and fain, For hate and loathing, would have past him by; But when Sir Garlon uttered mocking-wise; 'What, wear ye still that same crown-scandalous?'