derisively

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   in a disrespectful and mocking manner

   They apologized derisively.

2. 2
   adv

   In a derisive manner; demeaningly, mockingly.

   As ſometimes, with us, a queſtion is put deriſively, in the form of an aſſertion, when the propoſer conceives, as ſeems to have happened here, ſome abſurdity in the thing, I thought it beſt, after the example of ſo many Lat[in] interpreters, to adopt the equivocal, or rather the oblique, form of the original expreſſion. The ambiguity is not real, but apparent.

Etymology

From derisive + -ly.