Scornful \Scorn"ful\, a.
1. Full of scorn or contempt; contemptuous; disdainful.
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Scornful of winter's frost and summer's sun.
--Prior.
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Dart not scornful glances from those eyes. --Shak.
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2. Treated with scorn; exciting scorn. [Obs.]
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The scornful mark of every open eye. --Shak.
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Syn: Contemptuous; disdainful; contumelious; reproachful;
insolent.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
scornful
adj 1: expressing extreme contempt [syn: contemptuous, disdainful,
insulting]
2: expressing offensive reproach [syn: abusive, insulting,
opprobrious, scurrilous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
34 Moby Thesaurus words for "scornful":
abjuratory, arrogant, clannish, cliquish, contemptuous,
contumelious, declinatory, deprecative, derisive, derisory,
despising, disdainful, dismissive, disparaging, exclusive, haughty,
high-handed, mocking, overweening, rejective, renunciative,
scoffing, sneering, snide, sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty,
snotty, supercilious, superior, toploftical, toplofty, withering
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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