| Pronunciation: | | 'skornful
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| Matching Terms: | | scornfully
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- [adj] expressing offensive reproach
- [adj] expressing extreme contempt
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| | Synonyms: | | abusive, contemptuous, disdainful, disrespectful, insulting, offensive, opprobrious, scurrilous |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Scorn"ful\, a.
1. Full of scorn or contempt; contemptuous; disdainful.
Scornful of winter's frost and summer's sun.
--Prior.
Dart not scornful glances from those eyes. --Shak.
2. Treated with scorn; exciting scorn. [Obs.]
The scornful mark of every open eye. --Shak.
Syn: Contemptuous; disdainful; contumelious; reproachful;
insolent. -- {Scorn"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Scorn"ful*ness},
n.
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