Sentence examples similar to scornful content from inspiring English sources

Hicks poured scornful, bilious, bileful scorn.

Trop., of mental aversion, to be disdainful, scornful, haughty; to disdain, despise, scorn.

Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life, which [the comic dramatist] representeth in the most ridiculous and scornful sort that may be, so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one.

The most important English Renaissance statement concerning comedy is that of Sir Philip Sidney in The Defence of Poesie (1595): Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life, which [the comic dramatist] representeth in the most ridiculous and scornful sort that may be, so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one.

Why scornful?

He was scornful.

Russia is openly scornful.

I sound scornful.

The elders were scornful.

Critics are scornful.

Paul is scornful.