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
It evoked a strong desire to mock and ape, and produced in his throat a cough of singular scornfulness, more particularly when Mr. Rusper also assisted, with an assumed unconsciousness that was all his own.
From The History of Mr. Polly by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Alma tried her features in expression of cold scornfulness.
From The Whirlpool by Gissing, George
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 Bosher, Kate Langley
The young Count turned somewhat red, both at the coarseness and the scornfulness of the King's reply.
From Henry of Guise; (Vol. II of 3) or, The States of Blois by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
