Word: scornful
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...politics, opposed by every newspaper and every political agency in the city, won out by the most sweeping majority in the history of Seattle. Like Hoover, he was a "rotten" talker; knew nothing about politics, but the people were willing to judge him by his accomplishments and looked with scorn upon the scathing efforts of the political agencies that sought his defeat...
...Torre conducts L'Osservatore Romano under the charter of a strictly private corporation, but indicates its true status by printing daily as its device the Papal mitre and crossed keys. He maintains absolute the decorum of L'Osservatore's news and editorial columns, but does not scorn to accept advertisements of fountain pens, filing cabinets, asperin, hair tonics, and that esteemed internal remedy Le Pillole Pink...
Snooty spectators may scorn the mechanical thunder of this Willard Mack truck, but they will probably be unable to do so until they are outside of the theatre. It is asserted that Theatreman Mack gathered his material directly from the blotter of a Canadian police court and it is also asserted, on poorer authority, that some of the incidents in his play will be discussed in a temple of justice far closer to Broadway. Said Burns Mantle, able critic to the N. Y. Daily News: "Hoist the warnings! Go tell Jimmie Sinnott, the mayor's censor!* The prostitutes...
...noted they were the less were they to be revered when their real selves came to light. But heretofore the public has been left its faith in the bad men of times past. From Nero to the Kaiser, various luckless individuals have been the target of unanimous invective and scorn, and few attempts to deny them their titles have been made...
After this the bulldog blinked, and the shepherd dog exhibited his scorn with a gesture so impolite that it was a definite breach of etiquette. The crowd, however, applauded and went home, for the dog show was over...