![]() 2023 Contrary, even edgy opinions on many issues are simply too toxic even to entertain, and dignifying them with anything other than scorn amounts to a poisonous concession. Ilana Kaplan, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2023 The studio anticipates adapting the story about a wife scorned and her plot for revenge into a television series and is currently working on casting for the show. Patrick Frater, Variety, 11 June 2023 After all, hell hath no fury like a pop star scorned. Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023 If showing weakness and vulnerability exposes a creator to scorn and derision, building a defensive wall may be a natural response. Dan Williams, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 July 2023 The sun, which had been scorching, scorned our embrace then hid behind the riverbank. Verb Long feted as a torch-bearer for basic rights or scorned for elitist overreach, Israel’s Supreme Court is under ever fiercer scrutiny as it is asked to roll back Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial reforms – and to rule on its own powers. 2023 Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan trip earlier in August was met with scorn and appeared to have inflamed tensions between China and Taiwan. Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, Maher quickly became the target for relentless scorn and ridicule. Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 14 June 2023 But Gramm-Rudman-Hollings, as the law is known, immediately became an object of scorn. Soraya Roberts, The Atlantic, 22 June 2023 First, some history: The Cowboys earned their fair share of scorn for giving Zeke 6 years, $90 million in 2019 before taking care of their quarterback, which is not how most organizations do it. 2023 Such scorn remains a common reaction to the Valley-girl archetype. Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, One scientist infamously dubbed the condition backwards evolution, which was met with scorn by others in the scientific community. Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 11 July 2023 And no one could be more scathing in their scorn of screenwriting and its practitioners than the great authors themselves. Noun Providence Village drew the scorn of HBO’s John Oliver, who dedicated a lengthy segment in April to HOAs on his show Last Week Tonight. ![]() The German linguist Hermann Dunger ( 'Hörner Aufsetzen' und 'Hahnrei', "Germania" 29, 1884) ascribes it to a custom surviving into 19c., "the old practice of engrafting the spurs of a castrated cock on the root of the excised comb, which caused them to grow like horns" but the image could have grown as well from a general gesture of contempt or insult made to wronged husbands, "who have been the subject of popular jest in all ages". The image is widespread in Europe and perhaps as old as ancient Greece. (the victim was fancied to grow one on his head). ![]() To make horns at "hold up the fist with the two exterior fingers extended" as a gesture of insult is from c.1600. Figurative senses of Latin cornu included "salient point, chief argument wing, flank power, courage, strength." Horn of plenty is from 1580s. Jazz slang sense of "trumpet" is by 1921. Slang meaning "erect penis" is suggested by c. Of dilemmas from 1540s of automobile warning signals from 1901. as "one of the tips of the crescent moon." The name was retained for a class of musical instruments that developed from the hunting horn the French horn is the true representative of the class. Old English horn "horn of an animal projection, pinnacle," also "wind instrument" (originally one made from animal horns), from Proto-Germanic *hurni- (source also of German Horn, Dutch horen, Old Frisian horn, Gothic haurn), from PIE root *ker- (1) "horn head." ![]()
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