scornful

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I couldn't help feeling ashamed before all the people--scornful or sympathetic, who were looking on--that my sister had shown herself a coward; but I was sorry for her, too.

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  1. Full of scorn or contempt; contemptuous; disdainful; insolent. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. Ps. i. 1. Unknit that threat'ning unkind brow, And dart not scornful glances from those eyes. Shak., T. of the S., v. 2. 137. Th' enamour'd deity pursues the chace; The scornful damsel shuns his loathed embrace. Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Metamorph., i.
  2. Provoking or exciting scorn or contempt; appearing as an object of scorn. The scornful mark of every open eye. Shak., Lucrece, l. 520.
  3. Synonyms See scorn, v.

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  • They thought him hard, scornful, and passionate, and accused him of improbable crimes. —  The Life of Jesus
  • Eros at least was openly scornful -- claiming Sea Beggars would say anything for a chance to loot the Sound -- but that was male bravado, unwilling to admit to problems Love could not solve. —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 01 - January 2002
  • Her head was thrown back, her expression scornful. —  Mary Balogh Ungrateful Governess
  • For a tense moment they regarded each other--Marjorie scornful, aloof; Bernice astounded, half-angry, half-afraid. —  Bernice Bobs Her Hair
  • He doesn't care a snap of his fingers about you For a tense moment they regarded each other--Marjorie scornful, aloof; Bernice astounded, half-angry, half-afraid. —  The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories
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