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
Then turned away with an affected scornfulness, and yet looked kindly enough upon him from the corner of one eye.
From Life's Progress Through The Passions Or, The Adventures of Natura by Eliza Fowler Haywood
Her face set itself in resolute lines, her voice had a cold scornfulness in it.
From A Little Girl in Old Detroit by Amanda Minnie Douglas
To him it seemed that Nora regarded him with yet more visible scornfulness.
From The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Emerson Hough
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
