How To Use Scornful In A Sentence
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When the great US sportswriter George Plimpton told Muhammad Ali's trainer Angelo Dundee that the Italian heavyweight Primo Carnera used to wrap a stout rubber band round his member at night to prevent arousal, Dundee laughed scornfully.
Sportsmen and their women: history's great divide
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Henry Geldzahler of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a pouting brat with anxious, twisty hands – "Oh, so you want to be a professional," his scornful denial of her appeal for help.
Alice Neel: Painted Truths; In the Company of Alice
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In fact, the only laughter he had heard from her was either scornful or sarcastic, and was usually directed at him.
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He opened the door with a scornful look on his face.
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He was neither a prude nor a Puritan, but he was scornful of self-indulgence, and though he earned a reputation as the champion of the poor, it was only of the deserving and never of the idle.
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He is scornful of modern gurus, or gu-RUS as he mockingly inflects the word, and tells tour pros, ‘If they can't beat you, they've got nothing to teach you.’
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The historical school mistaking what men have done for what men should do and, while often missing the full induction of the past, scornfully rejecting as empty apriorism deductive reasoning from the nature of man, presents a materialistic, evolutionary, and positivistic view of human society, which in no way appeals to sane reason.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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So lonesome that there were times when life looked absolutely worthless; when the blue devils made him their plaything, and he saw Billy Louise looking scornfully upon him and loving some other man better; when he saw his name blackened by the suspicion that he was a rustler -- preying upon his neighbors 'cattle; when he saw Buck Olney laughing in derision of his mercy and fixing fresh evidence against him to confound him utterly.
The Ranch at the Wolverine
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My husband would scornfully call me an emo girl trapped in the body of a grown woman.
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I was wearing gumboots and a singlet, and thought I would draw scornful gazes towards such disheveled attire.
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Oh, don't look so chopfallen!" he went on, scornfully, when Paul blinked.
The Spinner's Book of Fiction
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He spoke of us scornfully as raw recruits .
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Having baffled them all, she laughed scornfully, flung deceit to the winds, then hurried straight to the "fastness," and there uttered the tribal call.
Flowing Gold
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Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings.
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In the Washington administration, the Whiskey rebels raised their own flag; in the Adams administration, Virginia questioned federal law and readied the armory at Richmond for self-defense; Gouverneur Morris, the peglegged aristocrat who drafted the Constitution in 1787, scornfully called, a quarter of a century later, for a secession of the north, even at the risk of civil war.
America's First Dynasty
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The pleasure he takes in humbling the proud and exalting those of low degree (v. 6): The Lord lifts up the meek, who abase themselves before him, and whom men trample on; but the wicked, who conduct themselves insolently towards God and scornfully towards all mankind, who lift up themselves in pride and folly, he casteth down to the ground, sometimes by very humbling providences in this world, at furthest in the day when their faces shall be filled with everlasting shame.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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Nay the very mode of riding: for now no man on a level with his age but will trot a l'Anglaise, rising in the stirrups; scornful of the old sitfast method, in which, according to Shakspeare,
The French Revolution
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It was a phrase that sabered the spider-webs of logical refinement, and held them up scornfully on the point.
The Big Bow Mystery
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Alas! that love is certainly very lukewarm which can be extinguished by so trifling an offence; that scornful rigour, which is displayed so readily, sufficiently shows to me the depth of her affection.
The Love-Tiff
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With blazing and scornful eyes she fairly withered him by demanding whatever he meant by speaking to respectable people that way.
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Armed with the prestige and filled with the scornful overbearingness of the conquering nation, they have the feelings inspired by absolute power without its sense of responsibility.
Representative Government
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The two old ladies breakfasted in bed every morning, went out for drives at eleven and three o'clock, ( "ambles," Miles called them in scornful reference to the pace of the sleek old horses), retired to their rooms for naps after lunch, ate a hearty dinner at eight, and settled down for the night at ten o'clock.
Betty Trevor
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The Bower is biggit on the verra march line, 'she explained,' an 'the ben is ower on the Scots side whaur we intercommune,' and Meg, with her arms akimbo and her mouth on the grin, contemplated her enemy in scornful triumph.
Border Ghost Stories
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His step-mother accused him of loitering, of scrimshanking, of scornfully dishing up half-plates of food - more than he had earned, she sneered.
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They are openly scornful of the new plans.
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‘They can underestimate us as much as they like,’ adds Hines scornfully.
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Castitatis (c. 7) he asks scornfully; ` Being a digamist, dost thou baptize?
NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
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It was at the time an unfashionable view, and medical colleagues were scornful.
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She felt herself unable to face the whispered asides and scornful remarks which would accompany her acceptance of any offer.
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Whereupon the Indians laughed scornfully and chorused, "Forty cents!
CHAPTER I
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They celebrated a man who was scornful of polite convention and showed little interest in being embraced by the great and good.
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His voice was scornful in the extreme.
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`I never took you for a sentimentalist ," Marlette said scornfully.
THE DEVIL'S DOOR
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The 'ole geeser's fyce is in this' ere thing again," he said scornfully.
The Red Horizon
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They make him express a vulgar scorn at Polonius which utterly degrades his gentility, and which no explanation can render palatable; they make him show contempt, and curl up the nose at Ophelias father, contempt in its very grossest and most hateful form; but they get applause by it: it is natural, people say; that is, the words are scornful, and the actor expresses scorn, and that they can judge of: but why so much scorn, and of that sort, they never think of asking.
On the Tragedies of Shakspere Considered with Reference to Their Fitness for Stage Representation
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He opened the door with a scornful look on his face.
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Where they "bantered," cajoled, and sneered, arousing a very mild irritation, Swift's scornful invective, and biting satire silenced into fear the enemies of the Queen's chosen ministers.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer
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Towards night the master offered him a knife, which he scornfully refused, and immediately went ashore in an almadia.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08
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Small things amuse small minds, she says, scornful of the rude slapstick humor they practice.
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But Halsted, evidently scornful of “mistaken kindness,” did not stop his surgery at the pectoralis major.
The Emperor of All Maladies
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‘The men here are wimps,’ the hotel receptionist said scornfully.
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Are you well enough to carry on?" — "Of course," she responded scornfully.
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Before he could reach it, they opened and a large gang of girls trooped out, howling with scornful laughter.
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It was handed over in a brown paper bag, but not before the newsagent had asked me loudly in scornful tones if I had already bought this edition.
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But even in calm times nomads are scornful of nation - states.
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The scornful rider gave the fox no chance to get well away.
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He passed him up," on the spot, with a scornful wafture of his hand.
An Anarchist Woman
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Sertorius, began to waver and revolt; whereupon Sertorius uttered various arrogant and scornful speeches against Pompey, saying in derision, that he should want no other weapon but a ferula and rod to chastise this boy with, if he were not afraid of that old woman, meaning Metellus.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy is a novel of voluptuous digressiveness, scornful of the straight narrative lines it keeps promising to adopt.
The Guardian World News
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Are you well enough to carry on?" — "Of course," she responded scornfully.
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Smiling scornfully, Hsieh - ch 'ü an asked , " Did you read the poetry of Su Man - shu and Huang Kung - tu ?
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Ah Fu laughed scornfully and said, " Who made me a cuckold?
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The scornful laughter of the corpulent man was accompanied by a slight hiccuping.
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Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings.
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Kant was critical of every other view, scornful, mocking, or at least he aimed to be.
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It has no ecclesiology to speak of; it is full of historical amnesia; and it is generally scornful of rigorous theological reflection.
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When I was still studying I was pretty scornful of mainstream movies.
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It thus came to pass that the poor white man registered it as his first duty to wreak vengeance upon this unbowing, scornful Negro standing between him and all that was dear to his heart.
The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist
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All scornfully out-voted him, and to this day the blacks assert that “a piccaninny debil-debil” so closely resembles a flying-fox that none but a black boy can tell the difference.
My Tropic Isle
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The Hawaiians are a handsome people, scornful and sarcastic-looking even with their mirthfulness; and those who know them say that they are always quizzing and mimicking the haoles, and that they give everyone a nickname, founded on some personal peculiarity.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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But you have to ask which article will do more to inflame the scornful anger of the middle classes.
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United by outlook as well as professional background, the comics rarely disagree about the targets of their scornful onslaughts.
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It is the descriptive epithet for bitter or scornful laughter.
Times, Sunday Times
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The blogger's reaction to this is scornful, I think he wants it to be seen as ironic outrage, but scorn is what its written all over his post.
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`I never took you for a sentimentalist ," Marlette said scornfully.
THE DEVIL'S DOOR
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What's comin 'anigh' em?" asked the old woman scornfully.
The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas
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She sounded scornful when she said this, and William was offended, for he loved his older brother dearly.
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He stood there looking both handsome and brave and he made his face scornful.
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Grandmother murmured something in embarrassment, but the Bohemian woman laughed scornfully, a kind of whinny-laugh, and, catching up an empty coffee-pot from the shelf, shook it at us with a look positively vindictive.
My Antonia
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His fine and highly trained ear disliked the frequent harshness of their versification, their indifference to the well-ordered melody of vowel and consonant, the grating, 'scrannel pipe' concatenations which he notes so scornfully in the verse of Bishop Hall:
Introduction. Grierson, Herbert J.C
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Extravagant in his praise of the fans and players and scornful of the Football Association and the hooligans, he wears his Three Lions with pride.
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Joan and David -- partners, Tudor began to iterate and reiterate in a malicious and scornful chant.
Chapter 26
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Don't be afraid of saying what you really think, "he added scornfully," with the notion of sparing me.
Questionable Shapes
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Gwydra turned a scornful gaze toward Carega, brayed a sneering laugh, then fingered the topaz at her throat and vanished back into the castle.
GLASS HOUSES • by TW Williams
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It is the descriptive epithet for bitter or scornful laughter.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not surprisingly, management are scornful of such talk and refused to even grace such allegations with a comment.
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Patched, half-starved, cuffless, and as scornful of the Hook as an interpreter of Ibsen, he had danced his way into health (as you and I view it) and fame in sixteen minutes on Amateur Night at Creary's (Variety) Theatre in Eighth Avenue.
Rolling Stones
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Sots vieux, nouveaux, et sots de tous ages, _ "thus he scornfully declaimed," and as yokefellow with Dan Merlin in his thorn-bush, and with wise Salomon when he capered upon the high places of Chemosh, and with Duke Ares sheepishly agrin within the net of
Chivalry
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Council members are scornful of U.S. suggestions that they forgo the death penalty for criminals convicted of war crimes; they think a tougher message needs to be sent to bitter-enders.
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When he had finished he gave a couple of scornful meows and swatted the kitten hard enough to role him over a couple of times.
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She swallowed, trying to control her fury as Matt's scornful laughter reached her ears once again.
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He was scornful of the women's movement.
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I told him I was worried but he laughed scornfully.
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Both had a gypsy-like disregard of convention; both were brazenly scornful of public opinion.
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Mort Dieu! how often did he complain of slight and insult from Elizabeth and her minions, of open affront from Edward, of parsimony to his wants as prince, -- of a life, in short, humbled and made bitter by all the indignity and the gall which scornful power can inflict on dependent pride.
The Last of the Barons — Complete
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Nae farer nor the len'th o 'my nose, an' the breid o 'my twa een," was the scornful answer.
Malcolm
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Many a scurril knave will make scornful rhymes concerning you.
Henrik Ibsen's Prose Dramas Vol III Lady Inger of Ostrat
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Grandmother murmured something in embarrassment, but the Bohemian woman laughed scornfully, a kind of whinny-laugh, and catching up an empty coffee-pot from the shelf, shook it at us with a look positively vindictive.
My Ántonia
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The best of saints have sometimes received the worst of injuries and indignities from a spiteful, scornful, wicked world, and must not think it strange; our Master himself was thus abused.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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And with a scornful sigh he shifted his attitude again.
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More biliously scornful of the efforts of every colleague who challenged him?
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Most people are obsessively concerned with the neatness of their house and garden and scornful of those who do not ‘make an effort’.
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Then a smile of scornful superiority, mingled perhaps with a sense of previous slights and unappreciation, drew back his little upper lip, and brightened his mottled cheek.
A Sappho of Green Springs
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What fugitive, what almsman of any foreign state, can do so much harm as a detractor, a libeller, a scornful jester at home?
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
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If she be fair, as the saying is, she is commonly a fool: if proud, scornful, sequiturque superbia formam, or dishonest, rara est concordia formae, atque pudicitiae, can she be fair and honest too?
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Despite Mildred's claims of sincerity, her aunt scornfully refers to her as ‘artificial’ in her social concern and a ‘poser’ in her expressed desire to find a ‘new thrill’ and ‘touch life’ by visiting the stokehole.
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He came back impressed by the company's scale but scornful of the inefficiencies.
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But at the same time he was dreading the meeting; he shrank from the thought of looking into Jack's eyes, cold – even scornful.
The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century
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At the word nylon, she took on a scornful, supercilious expression.
Maigret has Scruples
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George Crabbe used to go there and botanize, and lick the wounds inflicted by the scornful, bullying fishermen of Aldeburgh, who, having known him as a boy, scrubbing out barrels in the town, despised him, first as a doctor and later as their curate.
Wildwood
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Sots vieux, nouveaux, et sots de tous ages, _ "thus he scornfully declaimed," and as yokefellow with Dan Merlin in his thorn-bush, and with wise Salomon when he capered upon the high places of Chemosh, and with Duke Ares sheepishly agrin within the net of
Chivalry
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She resented KO Chung - mou's scornful tone, and his implication that she was a frail, timid creature.
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Absolutely, Bellville, if I do condescend, which is yet extremely doubtful, we will live in the style of lovers; I hate the dull road of common marriages: no impertinent presuming on the name of husband; no saucy freedoms; I will continue to be courted, and shall expect as much flattery, and give myself as many scornful airs, as if I had never honored you with my hand.
The history of Lady Julia Mandeville
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Elizabeth and her minions, of open affront from Edward, of parsimony to his wants as prince, -- of a life, in short, humbled and made bitter by all the indignity and the gall which scornful power can inflict on dependent pride.
The Last of the Barons — Volume 09
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Two Hindus were unpacking bundles out of a creaking araba, watched scornfully by an unmistakable Pathan.
The Eye of Zeitoon
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A nice verb, to bant, though not approved of by the dictionary, which scornfully terms it "humorous and colloquial".
Penguin Persons & Peppermints
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Scornful as he was, Dr Aubin remained unexcited, watching Kenworthy's face with keen interest.
MOONDROP TO MURDER
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He opened the door with a scornful look on his face.
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She gave him a slightly scornful glance, and he racked his brains to see if he could find the reason for the non sequitur.
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His criticisms and scornful attitude angered a lot of viewers.
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In achieving this remarkable success, Roddick has always been scornful of traditional business credos.
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He was also scornful of the use of varnish, which is a quick way for artists to make the surface shine and also to protect it.
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Some take it for a scornful question, blaming her for making such ado about him: Why shouldst thou be so passionate in enquiring after thy beloved, more than others are after theirs?
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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Maitre Pierre, in whom the bravado of the young gallant seemed only to excite laughter, more scornful than applausive.
Quentin Durward
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Antimony cast a scornful eye over the wrecked interior, the ripped curtains blowing plaintively with a weak breeze.
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But I just feel myself withdrawing and getting a bit scornful of others who are managing to cut loose.
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But it was an indocile, a scornful, and a sarcastic face - the face of a man difficult to lead, and impossible to drive.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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Canadian in his thick woollens and furs is a healthier subject, a worthier type, than the North Queenslander, stripped to the waist in the full blaze of the sun, glorying in his own vigour, proud of his magnificent heritage, and scornful of the opinions of those who have never experienced that supreme zest of life unpurchasable outside the tropic zone?
Tropic Days
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She took the cigarito from her lips with a scornful air, and repeated the words of Luis:
Remember the Alamo
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‘Did that set him off on one of his tirades about machismo, the Right Stuff, and pantywaist New Men?‘she asked scornfully.
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He gave my upraised cup a scornful look, snorted, and left to talk to someone else.
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We can all (we think) choose our own individualistic styles, scornfully ignoring the dictates of Paris and fashion magazines.
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He replied to that charge scornfully.
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When he had finished he gave a couple of scornful meows and swatted the kitten hard enough to role him over a couple of times.
