Example sentences for: scornful

How can you use “scornful” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The programming includes nationalistic music videos, scornful exposés of Western governments (Hillary Clinton is gay, as is most of Tony Blair's Cabinet), and repeated showings of the film Wag the Dog .

  • Americans will appreciate the irony of the scornful British rejection of I guess, a term that was good enough for the author of The Canterbury Tales .

  • That acknowledgment having been made, I find myself continually irritated by their cavalier dismissal of everything that human beings developed in the course of history: it reflects an adolescent mentality that is scornful of anything that might have taken place before these parvenu geniuses put finger to keyboard.

  • Of course, Web aficionados should take care not to be too scornful of the old-style printing press's capacity to reproduce images ad absurdum , since the Web has vastly expanded it.

  • Powell was absolutely anti-utopian--skeptical of politics, indifferent to religion, scornful of "happy endings" great and small, in marriages as in revolutions.


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