Example sentences for: scornful

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

  • Starr is batting "10 for 10" against presidential legal challenges, note Tim Russert ( Meet the Press ) and Fred Barnes ( Fox News Sunday ), proving that he's "not a rogue prosecutor" (Susan Page, Late Edition ). "The judge was downright scornful of the White House," adds Barnes.

  • "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less."

  • 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 .

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

  • 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 .


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