Contemptuously rejects a ship full of grain (6)
Solution – scorns
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The hint that a word containing another word is the solution is "full of". A common abbreviation for a ship is SS. So SS is full of a word meaning grain – corn is a type of grain.
S + corn +S = scorns which can mean "contemptuously rejects"
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