Meanings
comparative more scornworthy · superlative most scornworthy
- Worthy of scorn.
Verschoyle watched the ashen sea, and this reminded him of scorned and scornworthy Ireland.
2001, Danilo Kiš, Duška Mikić-Mitchell, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich1 more example
...what is curious is that if he could have kept himself, or been kept by his genius, at this high pitch all or any obstacles would have been scornworthy.
1912, Maurice Henry Hewlett, Mrs. Lancelot
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scornworthy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scornworthy
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