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
At his worst people feared the open scornfulness of his tongue.
From Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad
Even Jed Tighe read the little sheet every week, in spite of his alleged scornfulness.
From The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
It evoked a strong desire to mock and ape, and produced in his throat a cough of singular scornfulness, more particularly when Mr. Rusper also assisted, with an assumed unconsciousness that was all his own.
From The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Beyond this, and inspiring it all, I wait for the sad scornfulness of that smile to disappear.
From Silent Struggles by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
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