scornfully

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US /ˈskɔɹnfəli/ UK /ˈskɔːnfəli/
adv Freq #89668

Meanings

  1. 1
    adv

    In a scornful manner; contemptuously, derisively.

    "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?"

  2. 2
    adv

    without respect

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English scornfully; equivalent to scornful + -ly (adverbial suffix).

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Synonyms
2 adv · without respect contemptuously

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