Translation for 'scornful' from English to Russian

scornful

презрительный {adj}

• Impatient, scornful, accusatory by turns, Ady's last book shows no diminishing of his anger.
• The Prawn Cocktail Offensive was the scornful name given to the British Labour Party's success (while in opposition in the 1990s) in winning trust and backing from the United Kingdom's financial sector.
• George Puttenham in the 16th century described what he called “a mock with a scornful countenance as in some smiling sort looking aside”.
• Admission, registration and interrogation of the detainees was accompanied by scornful remarks from SS officials.
• And another he laughs with a scornful "Ha! Ha!

• The Sikhs raided Delhi 14 times between 1766 and 1788. Sikhs were very scornful towards Delhi due to the following reasons.
• In a parody of the Kurt Weill torch song, Surabaya Johnny, Mrs. Claus sings a scornful, teutonic kiss-off to her neglectful husband.
• Megatron is scornful as to why the Decepticons should require their assistance, so Kuri offers his new allies the use of a Klingon cloaking device.
• Time is represented by the sun, chasing the dawn and racing across the sky, jealous and scornful of the fame of mortals.
• An insult is an expression, statement, or behavior, which is disrespectful or scornful.

• The Philippines government was seriously considering cutting diplomatic relations with Iceland for initiating the resolution, which they described as grotesquely one-sided, outrageously narrow, and maliciously partisan and shown how the Western powers are scornful of sovereign exercise of protecting Filipino people from the scourge of prohibited drugs.
• In the finale, the housewife, previously scornful of religion and mutants, also experiences an epiphany under the Visitor's influence.
• "Under The Sun" finds her bidding a scornful farewell to an unfaithful lover. with hip hop beats, piano riffs, sun-kissed breakbeats and a pop chorus.
• Kommunerevisjonen researched the case and released a report which had scornful critique against the Oslo council.
• Spit – A scornful dark green cat who has a strong dislike for Binka and can be considered the "antagonist" of the show. He intimidates Binka and Tango.

• The defector and former GRU agent, Viktor Suvorov, was scornful of both the agents and the agencies that sent them.
• A controversial figure, Versolato was scornful of the fashion industry, and notably German supermodel Claudia Schiffer, in his book "Vestido em Chamas" ("Dressed in Flames"), published in 2005.
• They refuse the request of "Ginipathi" with a scornful expression.
• Embittered by his deformity, Alarcón was constantly engaged in personal quarrels with his rivals; but his attitude in these polemics is always dignified, and his crushing retort to Lope de Vega in "Los pechos privilegiados" is an unsurpassed example of cold, scornful invective.