scornfully

comparative more scornfully · superlative most scornfully

1. In a scornful manner; contemptuously, derisively.

   "Get drunk! Damn it, I am drunk," he said scornfully.

   1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 23

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   "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?"

   1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 82

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

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