adjective
definition
Showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous.
Examples of scornful in a Sentence
But he drove them back with scornful words.
Esajas looks scornful as he waits to run his leg.
The book is remembered solely through Goethe's scornful attack on its want of taste; its immediate effect was to produce Bahrdt's expulsion from Giessen.
She is totally scornful of Blair 's claim on television that he told the truth.
She is totally scornful of Blair's claim on television that he told the truth.
If he had been he mightn't have been quite so scornful about ghosts in machines.
By no means should we make others the object of derision and scornful laughter.
Sound carries easily on the still moorland air which is why the little folk heard every scornful word that Mabel had just uttered.
The most annoying aspect of Disco Queen 's personality is that she seems impervious to both cold and scornful looks from women like you.
If he had been he might n't have been quite so scornful about ghosts in machines.
Mr Francis Gribble has summed up her characterin" a scornful, insular way " as a light woman.
He switches to a scornful tone, which I think at first may just be the way he expresses enthusiasm.
George had become an enthusiastic member of this group despite his previous rather scornful attitude to what he called " they statistic merchants ".
In letting me through the trout fishers usually cast a scornful eye at me as a salmon toff.
George had become an enthusiastic member of this group despite his previous rather scornful attitude to what he called " they statistic merchants " .
Discuss Originally they were very scornful of Wales, keeping the flags off their amps until it had already become cool to be Welsh.
Perhaps he gets his reward from these apparently scornful ones after all is over; he certainly does not get it during the operation.
He was the very opposite of Richelieu, as wheedling in his ways as the other had been haughty and scornful, as devoid of vanity and rancour as Richelieu had been full of jealous care for his authority; he was gentle where the other had been passionate and irritable, with an intelligence as great and more supple, and a far more grasping nature.
His keen intuition of truth, his vigour and yet sobriety of argument, his fertility of illustration and acuteness of sarcasm, made him irresistible to his antagonists; and the evanescent triumphs of scornful controversy have given place to the sedate applause of a long-lived posterity.
The CPGB was equally scornful of the proposition that the ILP would rapidly become the instrument of socialist change.
One of the publishers to whom Johnson applied for employment measured with a scornful eye that athletic though uncouth frame, and exclaimed, "You had better get a porter's knot and carry trunks."
Thou dreamest that thou art wise because thou couldst utter those blasphemous words, he went on, with a somber and scornful smile.
So also did the " Midhat Constitution " promulgated by Abd-ul-Hamid almost immediately after his accession to the throne, owing largely to the reactionary spirit at that time of the' Ulema and of the sultan's immediate advisers, but almost, if not quite, in equal measure to the scornful reception of the Constitution by the European powers.
He is often outrageously unjust in the substance of what he says, and in manner harsh to cynicism, scornful to gruesomeness; but in no battle that he fought was he ever actuated by selfish interests.
The archbishop answered with words as scornful as their own, and took his way to the minster to attend vespers.
The only interest of the piece for us lies in the proof which it furnishes, that at the opening of his life Burke had the same scornful antipathy to political rationalism which flamed out in such overwhelming passion at its close.
With its huge ungainly limbs sprawling unsymmetrically, and its gnarled hands and fingers, it stood an aged, stern, and scornful monster among the smiling birch trees.