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disdainfully en · ADV

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. In a disdainful manner.
   • 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. 1966, Helena Huntington Smith, The War on Powder River, page 68:
   • 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.’ 2024, Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time, Sceptre, page 12:
   • "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. 1897, Marie Corelli, “Chapter I”, in Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul, New York: Stone & Kimball, page 36:
   • 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?" 1995 March 1, John F. Dickerson, “Aging: Never Too Old”, in Time, retrieved 04 Aug 2014:

Forms

Translations (10)

it sdegnosamente (in a disdainful manner) · grc ὑπερκόπως (in a disdainful manner) · grc ὀλιγώρως (in a disdainful manner) · ca desdenyosament (in a disdainful manner) · grc μεγαλοφρόνως (in a disdainful manner) · es desdeñosamente (in a disdainful manner) · grc ὑπερηφάνως (in a disdainful manner) · grc καταφρονητικῶς (in a disdainful manner) · pt desdenhosamente (in a disdainful manner) · grc ὑψικόμπως (in a disdainful manner)