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He was alone and outnumbered at least five to one only spurred him on to greater feasts of scornful oratory.

He took a scornful glance at me when he left my room.

Every eye was fixed on Carrie, still proud and scornful. They moved as she moved. Their eyes were with her eyes.

He would have been a religious reformer, if he had not been too scornful of the vulgar to engage in propaganda.

When I said that this sounded rather nice, he gave me a scornful look.

She said scornful things, but it was all to hide how she really felt.

Chef Lin gazed at the duck with a scornful look and plainly stated that it wasn't exactly how we likes to see it.

It was an indocile, a scornful and a sarcastic face-the face of a man difficult to lead and impossible to drive.

All she could do now was to shun the scornful gaze of men, and to bear in silence the great change that was coming upon her.

Hindley lavished on her a torrent of scornful abuse, and bade her get to her room immediately, or she shouldn't cry for nothing!

Together with a sudden lightning across the sky, followed by scornful thunder, rain, big up.

He gave a scornful laugh at my proposal.

I think of his courage in going up to shake the hands of complete strangers, risking laughter from scornful faces.

"I've been starved a month and more, " she answered, resting on the word as scornful as she could.

Hadji Murad gave a scornful sideways glance at this fat little man in civilian clothes who carried no weapons, and made no answer.

But this rising impulse of tenderness was turned to choking bitterness by the memory of that scornful "No, sir. "

Scornful indifference to what "the natives" may think of us, brings its own appropriate and sufficient punishment.

Some netizens praised the boy with scornful expressions that he revealed his true nature and was full of childlike innocence.

After listening to the song once a rather scornful tone, sound is blurred now, that song is called "love love you. "

The healthy boy with his fresh, clumsy sensuality that she had then been so scornful of!

I began to have a feeling of defiance, of scornful solidarity between Gatsby and me against them all.

He withered Me. with a scornful look.

Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

I put good food into the pot to wash, to hear scornful "explosion" after a burning smell came from.

The fenqing are often dismissive of economic and political liberalism and scornful of the notion of universal rights.

All while making its adult viewers, at least, feel more in step with their teen-age children than with their own often-scornful peers.

"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. "

Arla-Non flashed her a scornful look, and tossed back a luxuriant mane of sun-bleached hair.

Used to express scornful acknowledgment of the obvious.

She withered him with a scornful look .

People in your neighborhood, office, or classroom may be scornful of your faith and determination to follow Jesus.

The renqing are often dismissive of economic and political liberalism and scornful of the notion of universal rights.

But he seemed to stand apart, and eye this former self with scornful, pitying, but half-envious curiosity.

Its failure to come up with winning innovations to match the latest hot internet sites has left many in the Valley scornful.

There lies no curse and sigh in the most awful mortification. Silence is the hugely scornful attitude of the avenger.

He my cousin! ' cried Cathy, with a scornful laugh. 'Yes, indeed, ' responded her reprover.

Charles Dickens , touring America in 1842, met his first westerner on a canal- boat making for Pittsburgh: a strange, scornful man .

Mr Blair is also scornful of the argument that phasing out Trident might persuade Iran to halt its nuclear programme.

He has a dedicated preference for high-taste books. He is particular about choosing books and scornful of those popular books.

Were robbers scornful of its four-million-dollar capital?

Aid workers in Afghanistan, who have long been scornful of American blundering there, are full of praise for these measures.

Charles Koch became openly scornful of conventional politics.

About the negative responses of the Rome officials he was coarsely scornful .

Expressive of disdain; scornful and contemptuous.

Psalm 1 tells us that the man is blessed who doesn't "sit in the seat of the scornful, " yet scorn is not uncommon in Christian circles.

Oh, well! ' said Catherine, with scornful compassion, `keep your secret: I'm no coward.

how scornful we are when we catch someone out telling a lie; but who can say that he has never told not one, but a hundred?

cried cathy , with a scornful laugh.

Heathcliff, having stared his son into an ague of confusion, uttered a scornful laugh.

He is no longer scornful of desk work.

Nowadays we hear the scornful protest, "I don't want your charity! "

She flung him a scornful look.

Ross: (scornful) Grab a spoon. Do you know how long it's been since I've grabbed a spoon?

Perhaps you've forgotten her scornful remarks about you?

Those scornful sights hurt my self-esteem deeply when I studied in urban schools.

Surely He scorns the scornful, But gives grace to the humble.

He was scornful of the privileged.

He's never scornful or disdainful of other nations.

Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings.

Your scornful heart is frozen and drifted far I fear.

He didn't want to back out now, though he had started at a later age than others surrounded by the scornful laughter.

We are scornful of the forces of convention.

Eg. A scornful laugh laughed he.

She is openly scornful of the idea that girls are in any way weaker than men.

He is scornful of honors.

It was a scornful reference to the man's origins in Japan's humblest caste, the grave diggers and slaughterhouse men of medieval times.

And make scornful men blush.

"Everything human is pathetic" (Mark Twain). Often the word refers to what is so poor that it arouses scornful pity:

When I explained that I wasn't a dropout, I just hadn't gone to school, she looked even more scornful.

Partake of my Scornful Bereavement

To take a trivial instance: how scornful we are when we catch someone out telling a lie;