scornfully

English

scornfully (comparative more scornfully, superlative most scornfully)

In a scornful manner.
- 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →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.

in a scornful manner