Scornful vs Scornfulness - What's the difference?
scornful | scornfulness |
Showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous.
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*: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."
The quality of being scornful.
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=April 1, author=Simon Critchley, title=Cynicism We Can Believe In, work=New York Times
, passage=It bears no real resemblance to that attitude of negativity and jaded scornfulness that sees the worst of intentions behind the apparent good motives of others. }}
As an adjective scornful
is showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous.As a noun scornfulness is
the quality of being scornful.scornful
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