scornful
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Scornful of the internet interlopers, the Alien Research Center in nearby Hiko, Nevada, decided to host its own Area 51 event the same weekend – for serious ufologists.
From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2019
Scornful voices can be as misleading as any others.
From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2015
Scornful chants from Congolese fans began as Sierra Leone headed toward the stadium and did not cease until the match ended, the players said.
From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2014
Scornful of the emotionalism and accident in abstract expressionism, op artists know where they stand.
From Time Magazine Archive
I had Letters from Lord Monkeyman and Lady Betty Scornful assuring me that, except yourselves, there were not three human Creatures in the Place.
From Gossip in a Library by Gosse, Edmund
Vocabulary lists containing scornful
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