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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scornful \Scorn"ful\, adjective
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}, adverb -- {Scorn"ful*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
scornful
adjective
1: expressing extreme contempt [syn: {contemptuous}, {disdainful}, {insulting}]
2: expressing offensive reproach [syn: {abusive}, {insulting}, {opprobrious}, {scurrilous}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
34 Moby Thesaurus words for "scornful": abjuratory, arrogant, clannish, cliquish, contemptuous, contumelious, declinatory, deprecative, derisive, derisory, despising, disdainful, dismissive, disparaging, exclusive, haughty, high-handed, mocking, overweening, rejective, renunciative, scoffing, sneering, snide, sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, supercilious, superior, toploftical, toplofty, withering
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