scornful
[skawrn-fuh l]
- full of scorn; derisive; contemptuous: He smiled in a scornful way.
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Origin of scornful
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Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018
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sneering, disdainful, contemptuous, derisive, rude, mocking, disparaging, sardonic, arrogant, cynical, egotistic, haughty, hypercritical, insolent, overbearing, snooty, supercilious, abusive, insulting, jeeringExamples from the Web for scornful
Contemporary Examples
Over a period of just a few weeks, a host of high profile periodicals have published smug, scornful dismissals of the music.
Ronald Reagan was president when we made that movie, and he was scornful and just openly had all these vile attitudes.
Jonathan Demme on Gaza, Transphobia in ‘The Silence of the Lambs,’ and Meryl Streep as a Rock StarMarlow Stern
July 25, 2014
There are also the looting and desecrating “archaeologists” for whom Wilkinson reserves his most scornful language.
He then went through a scornful recitation of all the things he could do if he wanted to settle for cheap laughs.
The Stacks: The Inimitable Albert Brooks Caught at the Dawn of His Movie CareerPaul Slansky
April 13, 2014
Historical Examples
Why then, you are to put off that scornful look, and hear what Mr. Solmes has to say to you.
Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9)Samuel Richardson
She was exactly the same as when they had parted, just as handsome, just as scornful, just as repressed.
Little DorritCharles Dickens
She repelled my mocking smile with a glance of scornful indignation.
The Tenant of Wildfell HallAnne Bronte
Why should people be so scornful of us who stand on our heads?
Alarms and DiscursionsG. K. Chesterton
She turned towards him quickly, and with a scornful look and flashing eyes.
Barnaby RudgeCharles Dickens
Word Origin and History for scornful
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper