scornfully

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English scornfully; equivalent to scornful +‎ -ly (adverbial suffix).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈskɔɹnfəli/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈskɔːnfəli/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nfəli

Adverb

scornfully (comparative more scornfully, superlative most scornfully)

1. In a scornful manner; contemptuously, derisively.
   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →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.

Translations

in a scornful manner

• Finnish: ivallisesti (fi), halveksivasti
• German: verachtend (de)
• Hebrew: בְּבִטּוּל
• Latin: contemptim
• Middle English: scornfully
• Ukrainian: прези́рливо (prezýrlyvo), знева́жливо (znevážlyvo)

Middle English

Alternative forms

• schornfully, scornefully, scornefullyche, scornefuly, scornfuli, scornfulli, scornfullich, scournfully, skornfully

Etymology

From scornful (“scornful”) +‎ -ly (“-ly”, adverbial suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskɔrnfuliː/, /ˈskɔːrnfuliː/

Adverb

scornfully (Late Middle English)

1. scornfully, contemptuously
2. mockingly, derisively

Descendants

• English: scornfully

References

• “scō̆rnfully, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.