scorn
noun
open or unqualified contempt; disdain.
scornfulness
Example Sentences
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Claudio’s comrade Benedick, a sardonic bachelor, renews his “merry war” of scornfulness with the ever-disdainful Beatrice, Hero’s high-spirited cousin.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2014
For the representing of so strange a power in love, procureth delight: and the scornfulness of the action stirreth laughter.
From English literary criticism by Various
Beyond this, and inspiring it all, I wait for the sad scornfulness of that smile to disappear.
From Silent Struggles by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Her face set itself in resolute lines, her voice had a cold scornfulness in it.
From A Little Girl in Old Detroit by Amanda Minnie Douglas
To him it seemed that Nora regarded him with yet more visible scornfulness.
From The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Emerson Hough
