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What is another word for scornful?

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Feeling or expressing contempt or derision

Derisive, disrespectful or abusive in nature or expression

Showing a lack of respect or courtesy

Having an especially high opinion of oneself, usually with contempt for others

Showing anger or indignation, especially at something unjust or wrong

Irritable, often due to old age

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Feeling or expressing contempt or derision

patronizing^US

patronising^UK

libellous^UK

libelous^US

unfavorable^US

minimizing^US

minimising^UK

dishonoring^US

politically incorrect

libeling^US

libelling^UK

unsavoury^UK

unsavory^US

beneath one's dignity

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“I did not admit this to myself, and still less to Beatrice, because she was most scornful of the girls I knew, and mocked at them.”

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Derisive, disrespectful or abusive in nature or expression

skeptical^US

sceptical^UK

rubbing the wrong way

cavilling^UK

caviling^US

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“He bore meekly all of Stepan Trofimovich's scornful jibes at some of his opinions.”

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Showing a lack of respect or courtesy

smart-assed^US

smart-arsed^UK

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“Apparently, this scornful child is beguiled by the useless arguments about alcohol and tobacco which I rebutted, nay refuted and flattened.”

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Having an especially high opinion of oneself, usually with contempt for others

patronising^UK

patronizing^US

too big for your boots

too big for your breeches

wrapped up in oneself

pleased with yourself

too big for your britches

think too highly of oneself

think a lot of oneself

snot-nosed

fresh

have an excessively high opinion of oneself

blowing one's own horn

looking after number one

in love with yourself

phony^US

phoney^UK

think one is the cat's pyjamas

think one is the cat's whiskers

think one is God's gift

throwing one's weight about

resting on your laurels

like the cat that got the cream

blowing one's own trumpet

I'm all right, Jack

like a cat that has swallowed the canary

like the cat that's got the cream

self-sufficient

having a swelled head

wrapped up with oneself

full of airs and graces

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Showing anger or indignation, especially at something unjust or wrong

as cross as two sticks

ill-humored^US

antagonized^US

antagonised^UK

with all guns blazing

scandalized^US

scandalised^UK

beside yourself with rage

sombre^UK

somber^US

dishonored^US

dishonoured^UK

smouldering^UK

unjustifiably resentful

unjustifiably offended

with chip on shoulder

grudge-bearing

with a chip on your shoulder

smoldering^US

humourless^UK

humorless^US

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Irritable, often due to old age

ill-humored^US

like a bear with a sore head

as cross as two sticks

humourless^UK

humorless^US

caviling^US

cavilling^UK

having got out of bed the wrong side

having got out of bed on the wrong side

sombre^UK

somber^US

apt to fly off the handle

got up on wrong side of bed

gray^US

grey^UK

have chip on shoulder

with all guns blazing

beside yourself with rage

having a chip on one's shoulder

antagonized^US

antagonised^UK

scandalized^US

scandalised^UK

criticizing^US

criticising^UK

having a fit of the sulks

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