scornful Význam & definice

Příklady scornful

• He was scornful of any thinkers entangled in subjective inquiry - whether in psychology, political ideology, or imaginative literature.

• In time this attitude melted into one of criticism, scornful cynicism and open opposition.

• What is hip-hop doing right that academics scornful of studying funk and popular culture need to know?

• In the course of the humanization of a language, such typical scornful phrases disappear from the vernacular.

• Murray, however, was scornful of this new twist.

• Just as in an arithmetic of whole numbers there is no place for fractional values, there is in stanza 5 the scornful refusal to countenance semiminims.

• Nothing but sarcastic comments and criticisms came from these benches and from the political class while the media maintained a scornful silence.

• I wish everyone who is scornful of voting and representational democracy could just see queues like that even once.