Robert Pinsky

When I was a kid, there was unhappiness in my family - was dealt with partly by escaping to television. And from a very early age, for whatever reason, I became scornful and resistant to and angry about that. And some other time in my life, I realized that there's a lot I loved in television.

American Poet

Rachel Cusk

The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.

Canadian Novelist

Barkha Dutt

If anything, I believe, television anchors have become parodies of themselves, self-caricatures if such a thing is possible. And I'd dismiss it all with a scornful laugh if broadcast news were not so dangerous in fanning misogyny, communalism, fake news and divisiveness.

Indian Journalist

Lorne Greene

Children are keenly aware of every situation where mother figuratively wears the pants in the home, and they're scornful of her for it. By the same token, the same attitude on the part of their father commands respect, even If it may at times engender fear.

Canadian Actor

Andre Maurois

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

French Writer

Booth Tarkington

He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

American Novelist

Lewis Carroll

When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.

English Author

Stephen Ambrose

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.

American Historian

Simone de Beauvoir

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Scornful expresses strong negative feelings towards someone, suggesting they're unworthy or inferior.

Negative Emotion

When someone is scornful, it's very clear and obvious to others. It's not hidden or implicit.

Not Subtle

Scornful is often used in situations involving debate or disagreement, where one side debases the other.

Contextual Use

 And the regular astronomers were scornful about this. They said, "It's all right, you can detect radio waves from the Sun,