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Full of scorn or contempt; contemptuous; disdainful.

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  1. a. Full of scorn or contempt; contemptuous; disdainful.
  2. a. Treated with scorn; exciting scorn.
  3. adj. expressing extreme contempt
  4. 1. Full of scorn or contempt; contemptuous; disdainful. Scornful of winter's frost and summer's sun. Prior. Dart not scornful glances from those eyes. Shak. 2. Treated with scorn; exciting scorn. [Obs.] The scornful mark of every open eye. Shak. Syn. -- Contemptuous; disdainful; contumelious; reproachful; insolent. -- Scorn"ful*ly, adv. -- Scorn"ful*ness, n.
  5. j:100 s expressing extreme contempt