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
For the representing of so strange a power in love, procureth delight: and the scornfulness of the action stirreth laughter.
From English literary criticism by Various
At his worst people feared the open scornfulness of his tongue.
From Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard by Conrad, Joseph
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
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)
