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scornful

adjective

= contemptuous, insulting, mocking, defiant, withering, sneering, slighting, jeering, scoffing, scathing, sarcastic, sardonic, haughty, disdainful, insolent, derisive, supercilious, contumelious • a scornful smile

'scornful' in Other Languages

British English: scornful If you are scornful of someone or something, you show that you do not like or respect them. ADJECTIVEHe is deeply scornful of politicians.
Brazilian Portuguese: desdenhoso
Chinese: 轻蔑的轻輕蔑的
European Spanish: despreciativo despreciativa
French: dédaigneux dédaigneuse
German: verächtlich
Italian: sprezzante
Japanese: 軽べつ的な
Korean: 경멸하는
Portuguese: desdenhoso desdenhosa
Spanish: despreciativo despreciativa

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