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
"Gee!" she panted at him with an angry scornfulness which made him wince.
From Man to Man by Gregory, Jackson
Cavalcanti has in him not merely the subtlety but the scornfulness of a great divine.
From Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II by Lee, Vernon
The ruffian looked with some doubt upon the youth—inquiringly, as if to account in some way for the singular coolness, not to say contemptuous scornfulness, of his replies and manner.
From Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by Simms, William Gilmore
Ergo, the cynicism and scornfulness of the world.
From The Inner Sisterhood A Social Study in High Colors by Sherley, George Douglass
