scornfully

English

Etymology

scornful +‎ -ly

Adverb

scornfully (comparative more scornfully, superlative most scornfully)

In a scornful manner.
- 1985, Joan Morrison, chapter 7, in Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 91:
  'What does he look like?' asks John Halgard. 'A salesman,' says Gerontius scornfully.

Translations

in a scornful manner

Finnish: ivallisesti (fi), halveksivasti
German: verachtend (de)

Latin: contemptim

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