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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
He sunned himself in her scornfulness as if it were love, and his ears drank in her curt monosyllables as though they were rhapsodies of endearment.
From A Group of Noble Dames by Hardy, Thomas
He was sensitive, very proud, inclined, perhaps, to scornfulness, certainly to fastidiousness, and one who seldom suffered fools either gladly or with much show of tolerance.
From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)
Fleming as he was, Watteau made the progress of the portrait last longer than the scornfulness of Mademoiselle la Montagne.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various
Ergo, the cynicism and scornfulness of the world.
From The Inner Sisterhood A Social Study in High Colors by Sherley, George Douglass
