Definition of Scornful

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Definition of Scornful
	Scornful Full of scorn or contempt; contemptuous; disdainful. Treated with scorn; exciting scorn. Related Definitions: Contempt, Contemptuous, Disdainful, Exciting, Full, Of, Or, Scorn, Treated, With

Scornful Quotations

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'
Lewis Carroll

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
Simone de Beauvoir

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Andre Maurois

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
Stephen Ambrose

He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
Booth Tarkington

Scornful Translations

scornful in Italian is beffardo, sprezzante

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