How To Use Scornfully In A Sentence

  • I told him I was worried but he laughed scornfully.
  • Smiling scornfully, Hsieh - ch 'ü an asked , " Did you read the poetry of Su Man - shu and Huang Kung - tu ?
  • Ah Fu laughed scornfully and said, " Who made me a cuckold?
  • 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
  • `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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Don't be afraid of saying what you really think, "he added scornfully," with the notion of sparing me. Questionable Shapes
  • 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
  • Are you well enough to carry on?" — "Of course," she responded scornfully.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Two Hindus were unpacking bundles out of a creaking araba, watched scornfully by an unmistakable Pathan. The Eye of Zeitoon
  • A nice verb, to bant, though not approved of by the dictionary, which scornfully terms it "humorous and colloquial". Penguin Persons & Peppermints
  • ‘Did that set him off on one of his tirades about machismo, the Right Stuff, and pantywaist New Men?‘she asked scornfully.
  • We can all (we think) choose our own individualistic styles, scornfully ignoring the dictates of Paris and fashion magazines.
  • He replied to that charge scornfully.
  • His step-mother accused him of loitering, of scrimshanking, of scornfully dishing up half-plates of food - more than he had earned, she sneered.
  • 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
  • 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
  • My husband would scornfully call me an emo girl trapped in the body of a grown woman.
  • Oh, don't look so chopfallen!" he went on, scornfully, when Paul blinked. The Spinner's Book of Fiction
  • He spoke of us scornfully as raw recruits .
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
  • It was a phrase that sabered the spider-webs of logical refinement, and held them up scornfully on the point. The Big Bow Mystery
  • 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
  • ‘They can underestimate us as much as they like,’ adds Hines scornfully.
  • Castitatis (c. 7) he asks scornfully; ` Being a digamist, dost thou baptize? NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
  • Whereupon the Indians laughed scornfully and chorused, "Forty cents! CHAPTER I
  • `I never took you for a sentimentalist ," Marlette said scornfully. THE DEVIL'S DOOR
  • The 'ole geeser's fyce is in this' ere thing again," he said scornfully. The Red Horizon
  • 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
  • ‘The men here are wimps,’ the hotel receptionist said scornfully.
  • Are you well enough to carry on?" — "Of course," she responded scornfully.

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