scorny
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ni
Adjective[edit]
scorny (comparative more scorny, superlative most scorny)
- (obsolete) Expressing scorn; scornful, contemptuous.
- 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 12:
- [H]er teeth were small, bespeaking a selfish disposition: indeed the whole of her features were what her husband would sometimes call scorney, particularly in their latter days during their little fracas […] .