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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

scornful +‎ -lyHarvest moon 64 map.

Adverb[edit]

The rats online game download. scornfully (comparativemore scornfully, superlativemost scornfully)

1. In a scornful manner.
   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1965, page 82:

     '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?'

   • 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[edit]

If you say something scornfully, you say it in a contemptuous or disgusted way. You might remark scornfully that your brother's breath smells bad. Ewwww.

You might be afraid to try out your high school French at a fancy restaurant in France, for fear that the waiter might laugh scornfully at you. When a teacher is impatient and lacks respect for a student's ideas, he may speak scornfully. The adverb scornfully means 'in a way that's full of scorn,' and the noun scorn comes from the Old French escarn, 'mockery, contempt, or derision.'