scornfully
English
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English scornfully; equivalent to scornful + -ly (adverbial suffix).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈskɔɹnfəli/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈskɔːnfəli/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nfəli
Adverb
scornfully (comparative more scornfully, superlative most scornfully)
- In a scornful manner; contemptuously, derisively.
- 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, 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
in a scornful manner
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Middle English
Alternative forms
- schornfully, scornefully, scornefullyche, scornefuly, scornfuli, scornfulli, scornfullich, scournfully, skornfully
Etymology
From scornful (“scornful”) + -ly (“-ly”, adverbial suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈskɔrnfuliː/, /ˈskɔːrnfuliː/
Adverb
scornfully (Late Middle English)
Descendants
- English: scornfully
References
- “scō̆rnfully, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.