Scornful

Quick meaning: Scornful is an adjective meaning Showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous; scathing; withering.

Meaning

Showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous; scathing; withering.

Example Sentences

Fie, fie, vnknit that thretaning vnkinde brovv, / And dart not ſcornefull glances from thoſe eies, / To vvound thy Lord, thy King, thy Gouernour.

Bleſſed is that man that hath not walked in the counſaile of the vngodly: nor ſtand in the waye of ſynners, and hath not ſit in the ſeate of ſkornefull.

Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."

Synonyms for scornful

Depending on context, synonyms include blistering, disrespectful, sneerful, belittling, contemptuous, contumelious.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include disdainful, contemptuous, opprobrious, insulting, offensive, abusive.

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