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

The old woman did not heed her scornfulness, but turned her eyes upon Lord Hope, whose face was already white with vague terror.

From The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

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

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)

Fleming as he was, Watteau made the progress of the portrait last longer than the scornfulness of Mademoiselle la Montagne.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various