Example sentences for: scornful

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

  • 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.

  • "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."

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

  • 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.

  • He realized intuitively what many Democrats and the Republicans have always failed to see: that the black middle class is prime conservative timber--angry about crime, intolerant of social pathology, and deeply scornful of the traditional welfare system.


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