Scornfully

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In a scornful manner: with proud contempt; contemptuously; insolently.
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  • adverb. In a scornful manner.
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  • adverb. without respect; in a disdainful manner
  • Word Usage
    "The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence: and such an one, in my judgment, was his late Highness, who, if none were to treat his name scornfully now shook not at the sound of it while he lived, would, by very few, be mentioned otherwise than with reverence."