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
All explanations and excuses he trod under foot with utter scornfulness.
From Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) Orators and Reformers by Asa Don Dickinson
He was surprised to see that his listener was laughing, not without a suggestion of scornfulness.
From The Mayor of Warwick by Herbert M. (Herbert Müller) Hopkins
Even Jed Tighe read the little sheet every week, in spite of his alleged scornfulness.
From The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
Cavalcanti has in him not merely the subtlety but the scornfulness of a great divine.
From Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II by Vernon Lee
