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Another word for scornful

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Adjective

  1. Showing scorn and disrespect toward (someone or something)

    Idioms:
    See also:

    respect

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Another word for scornful

Modifier

  1. Given to scorning

    See also:

    egotistic

    Antonyms:

  2. Characterized by scorn

    Antonyms:
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Sentence Examples

  • But he drove them back with scornful words.

  • 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.

  • 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."

  • "Eureka weights only about half a pound," replied the horse, in a scornful tone, "while I weigh about half a ton."

  • Abigail, the "waiting gentlewoman," in Beaumont and Fletcher's Scornful Lady).

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