An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
SCORNFUL
contemptuous, disdainful, insulting, scornful
(adjective) expressing extreme contempt
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
scornful (comparative more scornful, superlative most scornful)
Showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous.
Source: Wiktionary
Scorn"ful, a.
1. Full of scorn or contempt; contemptuous; disdainful. Scornful of winter's frost and summer's sun. Prior. Dart not scornful glances from those eyes. Shak.
2. Treated with scorn; exciting scorn. [Obs.] The scornful mark of every open eye. Shak.
Syn.
– Contemptuous; disdainful; contumelious; reproachful; insolent.
– Scorn"ful*ly, adv.
– Scorn"ful*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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