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Scornful vs Outraged - What's the difference?

scornful | outraged |

As an adjective scornful

is showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous.

As a verb outraged is

past tense of outrage.

scornful

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous.
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  • *:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ ("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."

    • outraged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (outrage).
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    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged , she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}