scornful
Use Scornful in a sentence
fəl adjective
full of scorn; derisive; contemptuous: He smiled in a scornful way.
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scorn (skɔːn) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | open contempt or disdain for a person or thing; derision |
| 2. | an object of contempt or derision |
| 3. | archaic an act or expression signifying contempt |
| —vb | |
| 4. | to treat with contempt or derision |
| 5. | (tr) to reject with contempt |
| [C12 schornen, from Old French escharnir, of Germanic origin; compare Old High German scerōn to behave rowdily, obsolete Dutch schern mockery] | |
| 'scorner | |
| —n | |
| 'scornful | |
| —adj | |
| 'scornfully | |
| —adv | |
| 'scornfulness | |
| —n | |
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Scornful
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
The way he handled it made her think he was scornful of its binding or paper stock, but then he read the dust flap, shuddered.
If an exception was made they were always treated with scornful or pitying condescension.
But he seemed to stand apart, and eye this former self with scornful pitying, but half-envious curiosity.
He sketched a hasty portrait of a wasted crone with a scornful grimace and a ramrod spine.
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