Scornful
adjective
Showing or feeling contempt or lack of respect.
She gave him a scornful look.
Often appears as...
- scornful look
- scornful remark
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Disapproving
adjective
Showing or feeling contempt or lack of respect.
She gave him a scornful look.
Often appears as...
- scornful look
- scornful remark
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Scornful expresses strong negative feelings towards someone, suggesting they're unworthy or inferior.
Her scornful tone implied she thought his efforts were pathetic.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Subtle
When someone is scornful, it's very clear and obvious to others. It's not hidden or implicit.
He was openly scornful of the new policy.
Pro Tip 3/3Contextual Use
Scornful is often used in situations involving debate or disagreement, where one side debases the other.
During the debate, her scornful comments made the audience gasp.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Scornful expresses strong negative feelings towards someone, suggesting they're unworthy or inferior.
Her scornful tone implied she thought his efforts were pathetic.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Subtle
When someone is scornful, it's very clear and obvious to others. It's not hidden or implicit.
He was openly scornful of the new policy.
Pro Tip 3/3Contextual Use
Scornful is often used in situations involving debate or disagreement, where one side debases the other.
During the debate, her scornful comments made the audience gasp.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Scornful expresses strong negative feelings towards someone, suggesting they're unworthy or inferior.
Her scornful tone implied she thought his efforts were pathetic.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Subtle
When someone is scornful, it's very clear and obvious to others. It's not hidden or implicit.
He was openly scornful of the new policy.
Pro Tip 3/3Contextual Use
Scornful is often used in situations involving debate or disagreement, where one side debases the other.
During the debate, her scornful comments made the audience gasp.
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Freeman Dyson: Let's...
And the regular astronomers were scornful about this. They said, "It's all right, you can detect radio waves from the Sun,
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Freeman Dyson: Let's...
And the regular astronomers were scornful about this. They said, "It's all right, you can detect radio waves from the Sun,
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Robert Pinsky
American Poet
When I was a kid, there was unhappiness in my family - was dealt with partly by escaping to television. And from a very early age, for whatever reason, I became scornful and resistant to and angry about that. And some other time in my life, I realized that there's a lot I loved in television.
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Rachel Cusk
Canadian Novelist
The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.
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Barkha Dutt
Indian Journalist
If anything, I believe, television anchors have become parodies of themselves, self-caricatures if such a thing is possible. And I'd dismiss it all with a scornful laugh if broadcast news were not so dangerous in fanning misogyny, communalism, fake news and divisiveness.
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Lorne Greene
Canadian Actor
Children are keenly aware of every situation where mother figuratively wears the pants in the home, and they're scornful of her for it. By the same token, the same attitude on the part of their father commands respect, even If it may at times engender fear.
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Andre Maurois
French Writer
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
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Booth Tarkington
American Novelist
He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
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Lewis Carroll
English Author
When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.
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Stephen Ambrose
American Historian
I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
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Simone de Beauvoir
French Writer
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Robert Pinsky
American Poet
When I was a kid, there was unhappiness in my family - was dealt with partly by escaping to television. And from a very early age, for whatever reason, I became scornful and resistant to and angry about that. And some other time in my life, I realized that there's a lot I loved in television.
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Rachel Cusk
Canadian Novelist
The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.
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Barkha Dutt
Indian Journalist
If anything, I believe, television anchors have become parodies of themselves, self-caricatures if such a thing is possible. And I'd dismiss it all with a scornful laugh if broadcast news were not so dangerous in fanning misogyny, communalism, fake news and divisiveness.
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Lorne Greene
Canadian Actor
Children are keenly aware of every situation where mother figuratively wears the pants in the home, and they're scornful of her for it. By the same token, the same attitude on the part of their father commands respect, even If it may at times engender fear.
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Andre Maurois
French Writer
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
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Booth Tarkington
American Novelist
He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
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Lewis Carroll
English Author
When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.
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Stephen Ambrose
American Historian
I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
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Simone de Beauvoir
French Writer
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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