Example sentences for: scornfully

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

  • I have been to a lot of New York screenings over the years, and have been surprised a) at how some critics feel the right to laugh scornfully or even talk back to the screen, and b) how so many of them loudly share their opinions of a film as soon as it's over.

  • ' That is said scornfully or dismissively," says historian and Brinkley mentor Ambrose, who tapped Brinkley to succeed him as director of University of New Orleans' Eisenhower Center.

  • "It's all about mind games," he volunteered scornfully.

  • On the one hand, he is particularly good at documenting the phenomenon of the aid worker who mutters scornfully about his household servants.

  • His persona was just such a type: mocking God, leading others astray, scornfully getting away. (p. 219.)


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