Full of scorn or contempt; contemptuous; disdainful. [1913 Webster]
"Scornful of winter's frost and summer's sun." [1913 Webster]

"Dart not scornful glances from those eyes." [1913 Webster]
Treated with scorn; exciting scorn. [1913 Webster]
"The scornful mark of every open eye." [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Contemptuous; disdainful; contumelious; reproachful; insolent.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

scornful, adj. (often foll. by of) full of scorn; contemptuous.

Derivative

scornfully adv. scornfulness n.

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THESAURUS

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

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ROGET THESAURUS

scornful

Contempt

N contempt, disdain, scorn, sovereign contempt, despisal, despiciency, despisement, vilipendency, contumely, slight, sneer, spurn, by-word, despect, contemptuousness, scornful eye, smile of contempt, derision, despisedness, contemptuous, disdainful, scornful, withering, contumelious, supercilious, cynical, haughty, bumptious, cavalier, derisive, contemptible, despicable, pitiable, pitiful, despised, downtrodden, unenvied, unrespectable (unworthy), contemptuously, Int, a fig for, bah!, never mind!, away with!, hang it!, fiddlededee!, a dismal universal hiss, the sound of public scorn, I had rather be a dog and bay the moon than such a.

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