Word: scornfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...however, when enthroned with all the power and pomp and prestige that executive authority bestows. ... So effective became his onslaught . . . that I seized upon his perfidious conduct and held it up before high heaven to the scorn and contempt of all good men and women. . . . Beginning in his home town and county I denounced him throughout the entire State as the most conspicuously despicable personifications of ingratitude that ever clouded the horizion of Mississippi politics...
...Triste which he wrote as incidental music for a play by his brother-in-law. Forbidding he was, in his way. He dovetailed into no set school. His scoring seemed classical but he used short spare motifs which he often left undeveloped. His pride in his symphonies was to scorn all claptrap effects, all hints of sensationalism...
...General William ("Billy") Mitchell has been U. S. military aviation's arch-critic. Now, as a witness in the Federal Aviation Commission's investigation, which last week turned mostly to War, Billy Mitchell looked once more upon Army aviation and found it bad. Chief target for his scorn was the Army's performance in carrying airmail. This he characterized as: "A miserable mess. . . . The worst show I've ever seen anywhere. . . . It's a wonder they weren't all killed...
Less lyric than his fellow-poet, Auden writes with more explicit scorn of "the old gang," dedicates his book with the forthright sentiment...
...incoherently impatient of all that. Poet Robinson is a calm skeptic; they, passionate disbelievers. More satirical, less serious a poet than Spender, Auden half-fills his book with prose patches: a mock oration, an airman's journal, geometrical figures, a parody litany. Most observable emotion in Auden is scorn: of those round-table experts "lecturing on navigation while the ship is going down"; of complacent citizens of "England, this country of ours where nobody is well"; of such tycoons as newspaper-owning Lord Rothermere-Beethameer, Beethameer, bully of Britain, With your face as fat as a farmer...