Word: scornful
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...persons are satisfied with their portraits. John Davison Rockefeller expressed delight at seeing Sargent's portrait of him but Calvin Coolidge, when he had been painted by Philip Lazlo, sent for the artist to come and finish one of his hands. What emotions of embarrassment, scorn, amusement and despair Painter Lazlo must have concealed in the letter which he addressed to the President to inform him that the hand was finished...
When the mob's sentimental and superstitious demands for the exile of Claudia are brought to Cardinal Madruzzo, he exclaims in amazement and scorn: "I supposed that the people desired a material diminution of taxes, a free distribution of food. ... Go and tell them that Emanuel Madruzzo does not obey the orders...
Irish housewives bridled last week as gossips repeated to them a doctor's scorn: "You will not in the length and breadth of the world fine worse cooking than in Ireland or a worse lot of housekeepers...
Grizzliest of the skippers was Capt. Norman Ross, 58, of the Zodiac. As a child he began to fish off Gloucester, Mass., and still prefers to be known as a fisherman rather than a racing skipper. He owns one of the four schooners in Gloucester that scorn to use motor power...
When a man sprays himself with the perfume of wood violets and puts on a brilliant cravat he becomes the object of scorn. Such a man is the notorious, fat, spider-like Bela Kun. For 143 days during 1919 he was the atrociously cruel Communist Dictator of Hungary. Today he is mortally hated and feared by the whole Hungarian people and suspected of plotting to overthrow the present reactionary Hungarian Government and the conservative Government of Austria...