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
Ergo, the cynicism and scornfulness of the world.
From The Inner Sisterhood A Social Study in High Colors by George Douglass Sherley
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
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
A Day long remembered: commented on with loud hahas and deep grumblings; with bitter scornfulness of triumph, bitter rancour of defeat.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
