scornful in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

scornful in the PONS Dictionary

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Also, when referring to laughter or a smile, it is bitter, scornful, mocking.
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He is very gentle with all who are humble or modest, but scornful of both fawning and pretentiousness.
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Their speech is described as "mridhra" which could variously mean soft, uncouth, hostile, scornful or abusive.
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Those scornful of the decision, he said, likely hadn't sat through all the evidence.
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Deep ones might give the face an expression of being dissatisfied, grim or even scornful.
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Surely the adventurism if found invited the ire of elders and scornful look of neighbors.
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Scenes include a hackney carriage journey, self-realisation, scornful glances in a mirror and wandering an old 1930s house.
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Tyi is scornful that they will see this as a sign of weakness.
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Scornful, the water bailiff points out the irony in that it was not science that helped his discovery, but a little girl.
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He is also frequently scornful of caravanners and cyclists.
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