| 词汇 | scornful |
| 释义 | scornful adjective uk /ˈskɔːn.fəl/ us /ˈskɔːrn.fəl/ showing or feeling scorn for someone or something: 轻视，鄙视 a scornful look/remark/laugh/tone轻蔑的表情／话语／笑声／口吻 They are openly scornful of the new plans.他们对那些新计划公然嗤之以鼻。 Synonym contemptuous Treating as unimportant blow something/someone off brush brush someone/something aside chopped liver damn denigrate denigration laugh laugh something off leave something at the dooridiom look down on someone minoritize mock never shrug away shrug something off skate skate over/around something sniff at something sweep something aside Related wordscornfully Examples of scornfulscornful 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. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I wish everyone who is scornful of voting and representational democracy could just see queues like that even once. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English They were particularly scornful of any political integration. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 So much of the scornful criticism of comprehensives is focused on a few inner-city schools and blindly neglects the nationwide picture of support. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I expect he thought he might get a scornful reply. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are scornful and careless of workers' interests and care only for private profit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What a torrent of scornful invective we should have had and how this flimsy excuse would have been torn up! From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was trying to make it as unattractive as possible for people to come here, and he was scornful of industry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If he did not pour scorn on them, his tone seemed to be somewhat scornful in referring to them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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