Disdainfully

Quick meaning: Disdainfully is an adverb meaning In a disdainful manner.

Meaning

In a disdainful manner.

Example Sentences

Housemate”,’ he repeated, disdainfully. ‘What does this word imply?’ ‘That we are two unpartnered people, sharing the cost of the rent on a house, and are not romantically involved.’

"There are other people coming besides the Princess Ziska, are there not, Mr. Murray?" inquired Sir Chetwynd Lyle, with an obtrusively bantering air. Denzil Murray glanced him over disdainfully.

In what the antistock Carbon County Journal referred to disdainfully as "another of those farcical cattle cases," he was charged with running his own Staircase brand over a neighboring L 7 […], a charge which if true was not farcical at all.

Instructor George Breathitt asked an audience of 300 computer enthusiasts in Louisville, Kentucky, how many seniors in the group would like to teach other seniors about computers. A younger member of the audience quipped disdainfully, "Wouldn't that be the blind leading the blind?"

Synonyms for disdainfully

Depending on context, synonyms include scornfully, contemptuously, cavalierly, contumeliously.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include contemptuously, scornfully, contumeliously, cavalierly, disdainly, disdainously.

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