"scornful laughter" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a sound of laughter that conveys a sense of disdain or contempt. For example: After his jokes failed to garner a single chuckle from the audience, all that remained was a scornful laughter.
The element of the incongruous is prominent in Sidney's account of scornful laughter.
RM: Philip Hammond said the government was committed to maintaining fiscal discipline, prompting scornful laughter from the opposition.
If social satire that elicits scornful laughter is your kind of humor, "King Kelly" will have you doubled over with guilty guffaws.
His son George was even more caustic about "the scornful laughter of the House, on the ground that the idle curiosity of philosophers was not to be satisfied".
Gulmakai's delivery is contemporary and her scornful laughter is overt, but her experience and her rage are all too familiar, and echo the traditional landai: You sold me to an old man, father.
Curious now, daring to risk his scornful laughter, I asked, "Have you ever climbed Mount Everest?" (What a dumb question to ask a New York City taxi driver!) "Oh yes, I have," he answered as he pulled up to the West Side address I had requested.
"I need to be clear here: I'm not talking about the scornful, contempt-filled laughter that is all about feeling superior and rejecting the other person.
Podemos walked out of talks after Sánchez secured an agreement with the centre-right Ciudadanos (Citizens) party, and Podemos leaders reacted to much of his speech on Tuesday with laughter and scornful head-shaking.
Hicks poured scornful, bilious, bileful scorn.
From ancient Greece until the 20th century, the vast majority of philosophical comments on laughter and humor focused on scornful or mocking laughter, or on laughter that overpowers people, rather than on comedy, wit, or joking.
