scornfully

English

Etymology

From scornful +‎ -ly.

Adverb

scornfully (comparative more scornfully, superlative most scornfully)

1. In a scornful manner.
   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 82:

     "Do they not sneakingly bestow on me their crass inability to do anything with their own misbegotten progeny, a subterfuge which I scornfully fub off on text-books?"

   • 1985, Joan Morrison, chapter 7, in Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 91:

     'What does he look like?' asks John Halgard. 'A salesman,' says Gerontius scornfully.

Translations

in a scornful manner

• Finnish: ivallisesti (fi), halveksivasti
• German: verachtend (de)
• Hebrew: בְּבִטּוּל
• Latin: contemptim
• Ukrainian: прези́рливо (prezýrlyvo), знева́жливо (znevážlyvo)