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
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 Rolt-Wheeler, Francis
He sunned himself in her scornfulness as if it were love, and his ears drank in her curt monosyllables as though they were rhapsodies of endearment.
From A Group of Noble Dames by Hardy, Thomas
Alma tried her features in expression of cold scornfulness.
From The Whirlpool by Gissing, George
He was sensitive, very proud, inclined, perhaps, to scornfulness, certainly to fastidiousness, and one who seldom suffered fools either gladly or with much show of tolerance.
From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)
