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Scornful vs Disreputable - What's the difference?

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Scornful is a related term of disreputable.


As adjectives the difference between scornful and disreputable

is that scornful is showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous while disreputable is not respectable, lacking repute; discreditable.

As a noun disreputable is

a person who is not reputable.

scornful

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous.
  • *
  • *:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ΒΆ ("I never) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful . "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."

    • disreputable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • not respectable, lacking repute; discreditable

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who is not reputable.