Modifies a noun

• laughter: By no means should we make others the object of derision and scornful laughter.

• tone: He switches to a scornful tone, which I think at first may just be the way he expresses enthusiasm.

• attitude: George had become an enthusiastic member of this group despite his previous rather scornful attitude to what he called " they statistic merchants " .

• eye: In letting me through the trout fishers usually cast a scornful eye at me as a salmon toff.

• word: Sound carries easily on the still moorland air which is why the little folk heard every scornful word that Mabel had just uttered.

• look: The most annoying aspect of Disco Queen's personality is that she seems impervious to both cold and scornful looks from women like you.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: George had become an enthusiastic member of this group despite his previous rather scornful attitude to what he called " they statistic merchants " .

• so: If he had been he mightn't have been quite so scornful about ghosts in machines.

• very: Discuss Originally they were very scornful of Wales, keeping the flags off their amps until it had already become cool to be Welsh.

• equally: The CPGB was equally scornful of the proposition that the ILP would rapidly become the instrument of socialist change.

• apparently: Perhaps he gets his reward from these apparently scornful ones after all is over; he certainly does not get it during the operation.

• totally: She is totally scornful of Blair's claim on television that he told the truth.

Used with adjective complement

• look: Esajas looks scornful as he waits to run his leg.