scornfully
C1
adv
Freq #89668
Meanings
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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?"
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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