Definition of "scornfully" [scornfully]

• In a scornful manner. (adverb)

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• "The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence: and such an one, in my judgment, was his late Highness, who, if none were to treat his name scornfully now shook not at the sound of it while he lived, would, by very few, be mentioned otherwise than with reverence."
• "As he left, one of the men called scornfully after him."
• "He was about to repudiate the idea scornfully, when he sneezed!"