scornfulness

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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

He was sensitive, very proud, inclined, perhaps, to scornfulness, certainly to fastidiousness, and one who seldom suffered fools either gladly or with much show of tolerance.

From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)

The pastor of Plymouth uttered this attack upon Germany with a scornfulness which the printed word can hardly indicate.

From The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe by Various

Let him pay for his father's scornfulness; let her atone for her mother's disdain.

From Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy

A Day long remembered: commented on with loud hahas and deep grumblings; with bitter scornfulness of triumph, bitter rancour of defeat.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas