Adjective:

घृणापूर्ण, घिन का, नफ़रत का, उपेक्षा का, अवज्ञासूचक, तिरस्कारपूर्ण,

scornful's Usage Examples:

So also did the " Midhat Constitution " promulgated by Abd-ul-Hamid almost immediately after his accession to the throne, owing largely to the reactionary spirit at that time of the' Ulema and of the sultan's immediate advisers, but almost, if not quite, in equal measure to the scornful reception of the Constitution by the European powers.

The archbishop answered with words as scornful as their own, and took his way to the minster to attend vespers.

Thou dreamest that thou art wise because thou couldst utter those blasphemous words, he went on, with a somber and scornful smile.

With its huge ungainly limbs sprawling unsymmetrically, and its gnarled hands and fingers, it stood an aged, stern, and scornful monster among the smiling birch trees.

He is often outrageously unjust in the substance of what he says, and in manner harsh to cynicism, scornful to gruesomeness; but in no battle that he fought was he ever actuated by selfish interests.

"Eureka weights only about half a pound," replied the horse, in a scornful tone, "while I weigh about half a ton."

Abigail, the "waiting gentlewoman," in Beaumont and Fletcher's Scornful Lady).

One of the publishers to whom Johnson applied for employment measured with a scornful eye that athletic though uncouth frame, and exclaimed, "You had better get a porter's knot and carry trunks."

The book is remembered solely through Goethe's scornful attack on its want of taste; its immediate effect was to produce Bahrdt's expulsion from Giessen.

But he drove them back with scornful words.

Synonyms:

disdainful, insulting, contemptuous, disrespectful,

Antonyms:

reverent, courteous, inoffensive, unsarcastic, respectful,