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Scornful

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Scornful meaning

Showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous; scathing; withering.

Example sentences (15)

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

You are determined, resolute, ambitious, materialistic, sarcastic, wry, private, and scornful of silly, fanciful whimsy.

After Jay gave his scornful review, others said they couldn't believe a chef could charge so much for a classic street food item.

Making a scornful remark about a harmless cultural tradition for children in order to what…?

The politicians, socialites, and Catholic leaders present at the dinner didn’t take the joke well, but their groans weren’t nearly as scornful as the former First Lady’s reaction.

Another Lazio ultra (scornful of the incessant fascism of the Irriducibili) says that for many years “Piscitelli could do whatever he wanted”.

Eddie Jones could not have been more scornful when asked at his.

The British journalist dubbed Bronwen’s detached, almost scornful manner as a “dirt-beneath-my-feet style of modelling”.

The King James version is, “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Gordon wrote a scornful letter to the newspaper, criticizing it for not supporting its local music scene, to which Christgau responded by saying they are not obligated to support them.

In both the novella and film, the wife states that the laugh in her sleep just before she woke was a laugh of scornful contempt for her husband; although awake, she states this matter-of-factly.

Noted Han historian Sima Qian was scornful of such practices, dismissing them as foolish trickery.

Plutarch Numa 18. Tullus Hostilius Throughout his reign, King Tullus had a scornful attitude towards religion.

Scarlett is secretly scornful of Melanie Wilkes, wife to Ashley.

Scornful New Englanders called this modified version "Manhattan-style" clam chowder because, in their view, calling someone a New Yorker was an insult.