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

All explanations and excuses he trod under foot with utter scornfulness.

From Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) Orators and Reformers by Dickinson, Asa Don

And we from such terrible scornfulness were ready for anything.

From On the Field of Glory An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

He was surprised to see that his listener was laughing, not without a suggestion of scornfulness.

From The Mayor of Warwick by Hopkins, Herbert M. (Herbert Müller)

All the scornfulness had gone out of it.

From The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras by Fisher, Frederick Vining