scornfully

[ skawrn-fuh-lee ]

adverb

1. with derision or contempt:

   As the others came up out of breath behind her, she said to them scornfully, "Neither of you knows how to run."

Other Words From

• un·scorn·ful·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of scornfully¹

scornful ( def ) + -ly

Example Sentences

After State Department officials raised the legal issue in one situation room meeting, Kissinger said scornfully: "We shouldn't decide this on such doctrinaire grounds."

From Salon

“He says he protects Russian people, but this is how he protects them,” scornfully commented Protere Maximilian, one of a group of Russian Orthodox priests gathered near the church entrance.

From Seattle Times

A French visitor — a conservationist for an NGO and a symbolic representative of the European Union — bleats a few conciliating sentiments but is scornfully shut down.

From New York Times

“It’s the same ingenuity and creativity that has given us an edge all along,” Lylyck explained, and he compared it scornfully with Russian civil society.

From Los Angeles Times

And just as he plows headlong and scornfully through the dicta of the justices who defined a limited abortion right, future justices will be free to tear up Alito’s own gossamer assurances.

From Washington Post