scorny

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adjective

Expressing scorn; scornful, contemptuous.

Scrabble 11

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adjectivescorny (comparative more scorny, superlative most scorny)

comparative more scorny · superlative most scorny

  1. obsoleteExpressing scorn; scornful, contemptuous.

    [H]er teeth were small, bespeaking a selfish disposition: indeed the whole of her features were what her husband would sometimes call scorney, particularly in their latter days during their little fracas […].

    1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 12

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