Both Uses
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- Grandmother murmured something in embarrassment, but the Bohemian woman laughed scornfully, a kind of whinny-laugh, and, catching up an empty coffee-pot from the shelf, shook it at us with a look positively vindictive.†
Book 1 *scornfully = in a disrespectful or rejecting manner
- Leo, in a low voice, tossed off some scornful remark in Bohemian.†
Book 5scornful = full of strong disrespect or rejection
Definitions:
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(1)
(scorn) disrespect or reject as not good enough
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)