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Scornful   /skˈɔrnfəl/   Listen
adjective
Scornful  adj.  
1.
Full of scorn or contempt; contemptuous; disdainful. "Scornful of winter's frost and summer's sun." "Dart not scornful glances from those eyes."
2.
Treated with scorn; exciting scorn. (Obs.) "The scornful mark of every open eye."
Synonyms: Contemptuous; disdainful; contumelious; reproachful; insolent.





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"Scornful" Quotes from Famous Books



... more about the woods than any man the native had ever talked with, and wanted Shad to know too. For Peter had an answer to all of his questions, and Shad, though envious of Peter's grammar—for he had reached an age to appreciate it—was secretly scornful of Peter's white hands and carefully ...
— The Vagrant Duke • George Gibbs
... frescoes at S. Maria Novella, until such time as the pupil proved his superiority as a draughtsman to his teacher. The rupture between Michael Angelo and Ghirlandajo might be compared with that between Beethoven and Haydn. In both cases a proud, uncompromising, somewhat scornful student sought aid from a master great in his own line but inferior in fire and originality of genius.[290] In both cases the moment came when pupil and teacher perceived that the eagle could no longer be confined ...
— Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 - The Fine Arts • John Addington Symonds
... ring from her finger, she had pressed the veil as easily through the small golden circlet, so fine were the silken folds. Then with significant gestures she explained that all these treasures were for the stranger to wear instead of her own apparel. With scornful glances from her dark almond-shaped eyes she pointed disdainfully to Mary Fisher's own simple garments, which, at her entrance, she had tossed contemptuously into a heap on ...
— A Book of Quaker Saints • Lucy Violet Hodgkin
... to the four corners of the pedestal, and fastened the strings to the nearest houses, in derision, and went away laughing. It was at that time that he modelled four grinning masks for the corners of his sedan-chair, so that they seemed to be making scornful grimaces at his detractors as he was carried along. He could afford to laugh. He had been the favourite of Urban the Eighth who, when Cardinal Barberini, had actually held the looking-glass by the aid of which the handsome young sculptor modelled his own ...
— Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 - Studies from the Chronicles of Rome • Francis Marion Crawford
... express the feelings engendered by private piques and quarrels. There were in one parish some differences between the parson and the clerk, who showed his independence and proud spirit when he read the verse of the Psalm, "If I be hungry, I will not tell thee," casting a rather scornful glance at ...
— The Parish Clerk (1907) • Peter Hampson Ditchfield


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