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
He was surprised to see that his listener was laughing, not without a suggestion of scornfulness.
From The Mayor of Warwick by Herbert M. (Herbert Müller) Hopkins
"Gee!" she panted at him with an angry scornfulness which made him wince.
From Man to Man by Jackson Gregory
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
When I found out it wasn't so—that your sin did make you suffer, and that it did make a difference trying to do right—I felt some of my old Martha-ry scornfulness slipping away.
From Mary Cary "Frequently Martha" by Kate Langley Bosher
