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conˈtemptuously, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a contemptuous manner; with contempt or scorn; scornfully, disdainfully.
1591Horsey Trav. (Hakluyt Soc.) App. 343 The presents..wear..retourned to mee, and very contemptuouslie cast down beefore mee. 1611Bible Ps. xxxi. 18 Lying lippes..which speake grieuous things..contemptuously against the righteous. 1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. i. (1709) 92 To Check an insolent Humour in others, who behave themselves Contemptuously towards us. 1776Adam Smith W.N. I. i. x. pt. 2. 133 How contemptuously soever they may affect to speak. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iii. 268 Contemptuously indifferent to justice.
†b. With contempt or disregard of law and authority. Obs.
1529Act 21 Hen. VIII, c. 16 §11 The said Strangers Artificers..cease not contemptuously..to abuse the said Statutes. 1688Act 1 Will. & M. c. 18 §18 If any..Persons do..maliciously or contemptuously come into any Cathedral or Parish Church, Chapel, or other Congregation permitted by this Act, and disquiet or disturb the same. 1800Addison Amer. Law Rep. 267 Indicted for..contemptuously tearing down and contemptuously refusing to replace, an advertisement set up by the commissioners. |