Scornfully is an English word with synonyms like contemptuously or disdainfully. Below you'll find 9 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Scornfully meaning
In a scornful manner; contemptuously, derisively.
Synonyms of Scornfully
Using Scornfully
- The main meaning on this page is: In a scornful manner; contemptuously, derisively.
- Useful related words include: contemptuously, disdainfully, contumeliously.
Context around Scornfully
- Average sentence length in these examples: 31.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 6 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Scornfully
- In this selection, "scornfully" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 31.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, smile, ritabbi, fascism, predicted, dismissive and rejected stand out and add context to how "scornfully" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include b j scornfully called mixers and can smile scornfully at the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "scornfully" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with scornfully
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Commenting on the development, Prophet Ritabbi scornfully predicted that the currency would further devalue to ₦2,500. (17 words)
After Octavian's proposals for a conference with Antony had been scornfully rejected, both sides prepared for the struggle the next year. (22 words)
Although D.D. and B.J. were "straight" and disdained the use of instruments, some early chiropractors, whom B.J. scornfully called "mixers", advocated the use of instruments. (28 words)
Almost every modern drama about the past has to feature some sort of ambassador from the 21st century, who knows the future and so can smile scornfully at the folly and narrow-mindedness of the people of 80-odd years ago. (41 words)
The lawbreaker found it out who predicted scornfully that he would "knuckle down to politics the way they all did", and lived to respect him, though he swore at him, as the one of them all who was stronger than pull.. (41 words)
Tonio asks for Marie's hand, explaining that he risked his life for her: (Aria, Tonio: Pour me rapprocher de Marie, Je me enrôlai, pauvre soldat / "In order to woo Marie, I enlisted in the ranks") but she dismisses him scornfully. (41 words)
Example sentences (9)
Almost every modern drama about the past has to feature some sort of ambassador from the 21st century, who knows the future and so can smile scornfully at the folly and narrow-mindedness of the people of 80-odd years ago.
Commenting on the development, Prophet Ritabbi scornfully predicted that the currency would further devalue to ₦2,500.
If this is not enough, they must be attacked in the most violently contemptuous terms, usually with the aid of some scornfully dismissive label – such as ‘bigot’, ‘prude’, ‘xenophobe’, ‘Little Englander’ or ‘denier’.
After Octavian's proposals for a conference with Antony had been scornfully rejected, both sides prepared for the struggle the next year.
Although D.D. and B.J. were "straight" and disdained the use of instruments, some early chiropractors, whom B.J. scornfully called "mixers", advocated the use of instruments.
He ridiculed Dewey by name, criticized Dewey's refusal to address specific issues, and scornfully targeted the Republican-controlled 80th Congress with a wave of relentless and blistering partisan assaults.
Sociologically, to the fascist man, to become a bourgeois was a character flaw inherent to the masculine mystique; therefore, the ideology of Italian fascism scornfully defined the bourgeois man as "spiritually castrated".
The lawbreaker found it out who predicted scornfully that he would "knuckle down to politics the way they all did", and lived to respect him, though he swore at him, as the one of them all who was stronger than pull..
Tonio asks for Marie's hand, explaining that he risked his life for her: (Aria, Tonio: Pour me rapprocher de Marie, Je me enrôlai, pauvre soldat / "In order to woo Marie, I enlisted in the ranks") but she dismisses him scornfully.