ignoringly

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adverb

In an ignoring manner.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adverbignoringly (comparative more ignoringly, superlative most ignoringly)

comparative more ignoringly · superlative most ignoringly

  1. In an ignoring manner.

    I don’t know, how do I look after my kind / First, and shut up the rest with the minimum of rude? / When you, despite me are nor ignoringly deaf and blind?

    2010, Patricia Walsh, “The Politicianette”, in Continuity Errors, Belfast: Lapwing Publications, →ISBN, page 41
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    Some day soon you will receive in the mail a little golden-rod colored card, it will bring a message. It will ask a PROMISE of you, don’t cast it ignoringly aside, it appeals not for your money, nor your wife, nor your man-servant, nor your maid-servant, nor your ox, nor your car, nor your radio, it seeks only the product of your toil which is in reality something you love to do.

    1926 June, “[Association News] The Convention is Drawing Near”, in Sigismund Blumann, editor, Camera Craft: A Photographic Monthly, volume XXXIII, number 6, San Francisco, Calif.: Camera Craft Publishing Co., page 287, column 2

    A few more faces had turned to see her literally fall apart, then unemotively and embarrassed just turned away, to ignoringly resume their conversations again.

    2015, Stephanie C Harte, “One [The Skoolhouse]”, in Saving Eden: An Ecology Romance, [CreateSpace], →ISBN, page 15

Origin

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APA

ignoringly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ignoringly

MLA

“ignoringly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ignoringly. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ignoringly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ignoringly.

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