scornfully

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Scrabble points: 18
Words With Friends: 22
Letters: 10

Pronunciation

/ˈskɔɹnfəli/

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/ˈskɔɹnfəli/ · /ˈskɔːnfəli/

Definition of scornfully

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adv

In a scornful manner; contemptuously, derisively.

“"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?"”
“"Get drunk! Damn it, I am drunk," he said scornfully.”
“'What does he look like?' asks John Halgard. 'A salesman,' says Gerontius scornfully.”

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Etymology tree Middle English scorn Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós Proto-Germanic *fullaz Proto-Germanic *-fullaz Old English -ful Middle English -ful Middle English scornful Proto-Indo-European *leyg- Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Old English -līċe Middle English -ly Middle English scornfully English scornfully Inherited from Middle English scornfully; equivalent to scornful + -ly (adverbial suffix).

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