Roleset scorn.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "despise":

Roles:

Arg0:scorner


Arg1:thing scorned

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: ns form: infinitive


remember the yuppies? (-)
Where '60s dropouts professed [*-4] to scorn middle-class life and ambitious yuppies hoped to leave it far behind as they scaled the upper reaches of success, it now seems that so many people feel they're slipping between the cracks, that middle-class life is viewed with nostalgia or outright longing.
Arg0:	[*-4] -> '60s dropouts
REL:	scorn
Arg1:	middle-class life