Definitions for scornful

scornful scorn·ful

Spelling: [skawrn-fuh l]
IPA: /ˈskɔrn fəl/

Scornful is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 223 anagrams from letters in scornful (cflnorsu).

Definitions for scornful

adjective

  1. full of scorn; derisive; contemptuous:

Origin of scornful

Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at scorn, -ful

Examples for scornful

Why should people be so scornful of us who stand on our heads?

She turned towards him quickly, and with a scornful look and flashing eyes.

Ronald Reagan was president when we made that movie, and he was scornful and just openly had all these vile attitudes.

Over a period of just a few weeks, a host of high profile periodicals have published smug, scornful dismissals of the music.

Why then, you are to put off that scornful look, and hear what Mr. Solmes has to say to you.

There are also the looting and desecrating “archaeologists” for whom Wilkinson reserves his most scornful language.

An easy, scornful, merry laugh—the laugh of young Rupert Hentzau!

She repelled my mocking smile with a glance of scornful indignation.

She was exactly the same as when they had parted, just as handsome, just as scornful, just as repressed.

He then went through a scornful recitation of all the things he could do if he wanted to settle for cheap laughs.

Word Value for scornful
Scrable

13

Words with friends

17

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