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English
Etymology
From scornful + -ly.
Adverb
scornfully (comparative more scornfully, superlative most scornfully)
- In a scornful manner.
1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 82:"Do they not sneakingly bestow on me their crass inability to do anything with their own misbegotten progeny, a subterfuge which I scornfully fub off on text-books?"
1985, Joan Morrison, chapter 7, in Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 91:'What does he look like?' asks John Halgard. 'A salesman,' says Gerontius scornfully.
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