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What does scornful mean?

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With blazing and scornful eyes she fairly withered him by demanding whatever he meant by speaking to respectable people that way.
The scornful laughter of the corpulent man was accompanied by a slight hiccuping.
They celebrated a man who was scornful of polite convention and showed little interest in being embraced by the great and good.
She felt herself unable to face the whispered asides and scornful remarks which would accompany her acceptance of any offer.
Not surprisingly, management are scornful of such talk and refused to even grace such allegations with a comment.
He gave my upraised cup a scornful look, snorted, and left to talk to someone else.

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