scornful

Speech parts

1. scornful - Adjective

2. scornful - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Full of scorn or contempt; contemptuous; disdainful.

Treated with scorn; exciting scorn.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

contemptuous disdainful insulting derogatory biting sarcastic mocking scathing haughty insolent snide belittling sneering jeering derisive
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Antonyms

good acceptable friendly accepting sympathetic proud
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Phrases with the word

be scornful about scornful laugh scornful smile while derision is commonly bitter and scornful scornful of humanity

Examples

Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. Samuel Johnson

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. André Maurois

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth. George Eliot

His was the scorn which thinks it not worth the while to be scornful. Those he most scorned, never knew it. Herman Melville

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business. Stephen Ambrose

Some view our sable race with scornful eye, "Their colour is a diabolic die." Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train. Phillis Wheatley

Close letter words and terms

scorned scornee scorner scornful laugh scornful smile scornfull