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Vinony

disdainfully

adverb

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Wiktionary

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English disdainful Middle English -ly English -ly English disdainfully From disdainful + -ly.

  1. In a disdainful manner.

    “"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.”