scornfulness

• “You would have thought that in the scornfulness of her nature she must have sprung upon her foe with more of fierceness than of skill; but this was not so, for with all the force and vehemence of her invective she displayed a sober, patient, and minute attention to the details of vituperation, which contributed to its success a thousand times more than mere violence.”

  Eothen

• “It evoked a strong desire to mock and ape, and produced in his throat a cough of singular scornfulness, more particularly when Mr. Rusper also assisted, with an assumed unconsciousness that was all his own.”

  The History of Mr. Polly

• “The pastor of Plymouth uttered this attack upon Germany with a scornfulness which the printed word can hardly indicate.”

  The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe

• “For the representing of so strange a power in love, procureth delight: and the scornfulness of the action stirreth laughter.”

  English literary criticism

• “All explanations and excuses he trod under foot with utter scornfulness.”

  Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) Orators and Reformers

• “Even Jed Tighe read the little sheet every week, in spite of his alleged scornfulness.”

  The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men

• “Gee!" she panted at him with an angry scornfulness which made him wince.”

  Man to Man

• “For as in Alexander’s picture well set out we delight without laughter, and in twenty mad antics we laugh without delight; so in Hercules, painted with his great beard and furious countenance, in woman’s attire, spinning at Omphale’s commandment, it breedeth both delight and laughter; for the representing of so strange a power in love, procureth delight, and the scornfulness of the action stirreth laughter.”

  The Defense of Poesy

• “The monk trembled when he heard those words, for he knew that his scornfulness had been discovered, and he followed the Abbot in great confusion.”

  A Child's Book of Saints

• “When she looked at him her eyes under her level brows held a certain scornfulness.”

  Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man

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