scornfullyadv.
/ˈskɔːnfʊli/ In a scornful manner.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [adverb] > contemptuously
lightlyOE
scornlichec1300
despitouslyc1320
hokerfullyc1330
scornfullyc1380
despisantly1389
deignouslyc1440
scorninglyc1440
contemningly1471
a-scornc1485
disdaininglyc1485
despiteouslya1500
disdainouslya1513
disdainishly?1529
a-swash1530
contemptuously1530
disdainfullya1533
despitefully1535
disdainedly1535
contemptibly1577
snuffingly1577
floutingly1580
despisingly1591
slightly1601
indignantly1602
contemptedly1605
overly1610
slightfully1627
despicably1637
slightingly1654
contemnibly1702
sneeringly1711
slightily1740
snottily1864
sniffingly1873
sufficiently1893
sniffily1902
pooh-poohingly1903
dismissively1922
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [adverb]
hethelyc1175
hokerlyc1275
a-scoffc1300
scornfullyc1380
bourdfullya1400
japinglya1420
a-scornc1485
bourdly1500
mockishlya1529
mockingly1542
bourdingly1552
deridingly1570
frumpingly1576
floutingly1580
fleeringly?1620
derisively1665
mockfully1834
snook-cockingly1962
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 356 Fyrumbras on him glente ys eyȝe scornfullich & low.
1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (Horstm.) vii. 156 Oon Theophyl preyid hyr schornfully..That she sum rosys wold hym sendyn hastyly From hyr spousys gardyn.
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome iii. 242 And in þe mene tyme ane of þe equis cryit skornefully, It was propir to romanis erare to mak ane vane manassing, þan to gif batall.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. ii. 42 Their ragged Curtaines poorely are let loose, And our Ayre shakes them passing scornefully . View more context for this quotation
1661 A. Cowley Disc. Cromwell 55 It was bold to violate so openly and so scornfully all Acts and Constitutions of a Nation, and afterwards even of his own making.
1783 W. Thomson in R. Watson & W. Thomson Hist. Reign Philip III vi. 473 He scornfully declined to solemnize the double marriages.
1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies xxiv ‘Bread,’ he would say, scornfully, ‘is only fit for a child.’
1906 H. Van Dyke Ideals viii. 153 It is the fashion nowadays to speak scornfully of a book religion.
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