Definition of "disdainfully" [disdainfully]

• In a disdainful manner. (adverb)

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• "Mrs. Chesters could ride, had enjoyed the social advantages of the Quorn and Pytchley, but she hated what she called disdainfully,"
• "` ` Fear! '' said El Hakim, repeating the word disdainfully ---"
• "Bourbon glories, so extolled by him, glorifies, apropos of the coronation of Charles X., the Napoleon whom in 1814 he called disdainfully "Buonaparte," loading him with the most cutting insults: --"