scornful

English

scorn +‎ -ful

scornful (comparative more scornful, superlative most scornful)

Showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 24962326:
  
  Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."

showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous

Chinese:
Mandarin: 輕視的 (zh), 轻视的 (zh) (qīngshì de)
Czech: pohrdavý f
Dutch: minachtend (nl), minachtende
French: méprisant (fr)
German: verächtlich (de)
Greek: περιφρονητικός (el) m (perifronitikós), καταφρονητικός (el) m (katafronitikós)

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