| 单词 | scornful |
| 释义 | scornful (once / 619 pages) adj A scornful remark is full of contempt, disdain, or — as you might imagine — scorn. Your obsessively fashionable friends might be scornful of others who don't wear the latest styles. First used in the late 14th century, the adjective scornful originates from the Old French word escarn, meaning "mockery," "derision," or "contempt." You may have witnessed a contestant in a beauty pageant give scornful looks to her leading competitors. A list of scornful reviews from film critics usually precedes a film or actor's nomination for a Razzie, an award that recognizes the best of the worst in film each year. WORD FAMILYscornful: scornfully+/scorn: scorned, scorner, scornful, scorning, scorns/scorner: scorners USAGE EXAMPLESLeigh, by contrast, was small, surly, scornful of the school and scorned by his classmates, except for Lenox. Washington Post(Dec 18, 2016) He is scornful of multinational compacts and regional alliances, preferring bilateral negotiations and one-on-one tests of strength and guile. Economist(Dec 08, 2016) Her father, she tells us, is easy to write about; he was vivid, domineering, scornful, and babyishly quick to anger. The New Yorker(Dec 04, 2016) adj expressing extreme contempt Syn contemptuous, disdainful, insulting disrespectful exhibiting lack of respect; rude and discourteous |
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