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单词 scornful
释义
scornful
adjective
uk
/ˈskɔːn.fəl/us
/ˈskɔːrn.fəl/
showingorfeelingscornfor someone or something:
轻视，鄙视
a scornfullook/remark/laugh/tone轻蔑的表情／话语／笑声／口吻
They areopenlyscornfulofthe newplans.他们对那些新计划公然嗤之以鼻。
Synonym
contemptuous
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Treating as unimportant
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  • blowsomething/someoneoff
  • brushsomeone/somethingaside
  • chopped liver
  • damn
  • denigrate
  • denigration
  • front
  • laugh
  • laughsomethingoff
  • leavesomethingat the dooridiom
  • look down onsomeone
  • minoritize
  • never
  • shrugsomethingoff
  • skate over/aroundsomething
  • sniff atsomething
  • sweepsomethingaside
  • talksomethingdown
  • wave
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scornfully
(Definition ofscornfulfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofscornful

scornful
He wasscornfulof any thinkers entangled in subjective inquiry - whether in psychology, political ideology, or imaginative literature.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In time this attitude melted into one of criticism,scornfulcynicism and open opposition.
From theCambridge English Corpus
What is hip-hop doing right that academicsscornfulof studying funk and popular culture need to know?
From theCambridge English Corpus
In the course of the humanization of a language, such typicalscornfulphrases disappear from the vernacular.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Murray, however, wasscornfulof this new twist.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Just as in an arithmetic of whole numbers there is no place for fractional values, there is in stanza 5 thescornfulrefusal to countenance semiminims.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Nothing but sarcastic comments and criticisms came from these benches and from the political class while the media maintained ascornfulsilence.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
I wish everyone who isscornfulof voting and representational democracy could just see queues like that even once.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
They were particularlyscornfulof any political integration.
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Hansard archive
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So much of thescornfulcriticism of comprehensives is focused on a few inner-city schools and blindly neglects the nationwide picture of support.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I expect he thought he might get ascornfulreply.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
They arescornfuland careless of workers' interests and care only for private profit.
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What a torrent ofscornfulinvective we should have had and how this flimsy excuse would have been torn up!
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
He was trying to make it as unattractive as possible for people to come here, and he wasscornfulof industry.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
If he did not pour scorn on them, his tone seemed to be somewhatscornfulin referring to them.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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