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How to use scornfully in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word scornfully? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
My husband would scornfully call me an emo girl trapped in the body of a grown woman.
His picture of God as a cosmic dickerer purposely makes God petty and foolish, so much so that we scornfully, angrily reject it.
We can all choose our own individualistic styles, scornfully ignoring the dictates of Paris and fashion magazines.
He scornfully rejected those charges yesterday, saying he acted in self-defence.
We laugh scornfully ha ha! as we recall our pre-babies life, our carefree genderless roles.
To no avail: the top civil servant in the defence ministry scornfully dismissed the court's ruling.
They eyed scornfully the Italians in the world championship whilst teasing them the first places.
It exalts the pleasures of the body and of artistic creation while scornfully rejecting feminine possessiveness and sentiment.
Television ads for Mitt Romney show earnest youngsters scornfully intoning the 2008 slogans they once found so inspiring.
His book points scornfully to Mr Murdoch's quaint love of ink and old forms of media.
Are you in the habit of judging others scornfully when they show signs of weakness?
Sir Walter Scott in his novels, and Jane Porter in The Scottish Chiefs have used fragments of the truth which historians scornfully threw behind them.
The Bloc Québécois has been defending the Quebec consensus in this House, but Conservative members from Quebec have made a poor showing by scornfully dismissing our National Assembly's demand.
I can hear Sam sneer, as he gestures scornfully to my beer bottle with way too little ullage.
And in public, I laugh scornfully at any mention of it, dismissing it as a show for losers, dweebs and weirdos.
Examples from Classical Literature
When Ruric had ended this talking, Count Manuel laughed scornfully, and spoke as became a well-thought-of nobleman.
He had thought scornfully of the people who had betrayed their littleness by ignoring him.
The ship shot her red hell further and further into the blackness of the sea and the night, and scornfully champed the white bone in her mouth, and viciously spat round her on all sides.
How scornfully has she, by one act, replied to all our misconstruction of her!
She looked scornfully, though also with some surprise, round the volumed walls.
Not to speak it harshly or scornfully, it seemed Clifford's nature to be a Sybarite.
Madame Defarge looked at her scornfully, but still with something of Miss Pross's own perception that they two were at bay.
The beldame looked at him scornfully, and disdained to reply.
My lord, you scornfully bade me claim your daughter when I could boast as high a name and vast a fortune as the Count antonio.
His excoriation of Douglas was scornfully withering and scorching.
I checked the half-uttered invective, and scornfully turned away, regretting that I had given him so much amusement.
Lydia asked scornfully, with a distaste she didn't propose to lessen.
She faced him scornfully, seemingly to understand it as a boast.
I shouted scornfully, as they started to play the hose on her.
So spoke La-lah, otherwise the cheater, and Sime laughed scornfully.
It was in vain to try to do so scornfully, or with his usual insolence.
He doffed his Circassian cap to his master and looked at him scornfully.
So spoke Aniele, scornfully, and when he started toward the fire she added the information that her kitchen was no longer for him to fill with his phosphate stinks.
And he nodded scornfully to the three other archers who were surrounded by their admirers, and were being made much of by retainers of the Sheriff, the Bishop, and the Earl.
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