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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SCORN'FUL, a.
1. Contemptuous; disdainful; entertaining scorn; insolent.
Th' enamor'd deity the scornful damsel shuns.
2. Acting in defiance or disregard.
Scornful of winter's frost and summer's sun.
3. In Scripture, holding religion in contempt; treating with disdain religion and the dispensations of God.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: expressing extreme contempt [syn: contemptuous, disdainful, insulting, scornful]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 14th century full of scorn ; contemptuous • scornfully adverb • scornfulness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (often foll. by of) full of scorn; contemptuous. Derivatives: scornfully adv. scornfulness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Scornful Scorn"ful, a. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you are scornful of someone or something, you show contempt for them. He is deeply scornful of politicians. ...a scornful simile. = contemptuous ADJ: oft ADJ of n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Contemptuous, disdainful, insolent. 2. Defiant, regardless, disdainful, contemptuous.

Moby Thesaurus

abjuratory, arrogant, clannish, cliquish, contemptuous, contumelious, declinatory, deprecative, derisive, derisory, despising, disdainful, dismissive, disparaging, exclusive, haughty, high-handed, mocking, overweening, rejective, renunciative, scoffing, sneering, snide, sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, supercilious, superior, toploftical, toplofty, withering