disdainfully
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Etymology tree
From disdainful + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]disdainfully (comparative more disdainfully, superlative most disdainfully)
- In a disdainful manner.
- 1897, Marie Corelli, “Chapter I”, in Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul, New York: Stone & Kimball, page 36:
- "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.
- 1966, Helena Huntington Smith, The War on Powder River, page 68:
- 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.
- 1995 March 1, John F. Dickerson, “Aging: Never Too Old”, in Time[1], retrieved 4 August 2014:
- Instructor George Breathitt asked an audience of 300 computer enthusiasts in Louisville, Kentucky, how many seniors in the group would like to teach other seniors about computers. A younger member of the audience quipped disdainfully, "Wouldn't that be the blind leading the blind?"
- 2024, Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time, Sceptre, page 12:
- Housemate”,’ he repeated, disdainfully. ‘What does this word imply?’
‘That we are two unpartnered people, sharing the cost of the rent on a house, and are not romantically involved.’
Translations
[edit]in a disdainful manner
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