| They celebrated a man who was scornful of polite convention and showed little interest in being embraced by the great and good. |
| But I just feel myself withdrawing and getting a bit scornful of others who are managing to cut loose. |
| She gave him a slightly scornful glance, and he racked his brains to see if he could find the reason for the non sequitur. |
| He gave my upraised cup a scornful look, snorted, and left to talk to someone else. |
| Not surprisingly, management are scornful of such talk and refused to even grace such allegations with a comment. |
| The scornful mimicry of a supposedly distinctive accent may not be as bad-minded as Bernard jeering at the speech-patterns of others. |
