scornfully

Adverb

Meaning

without respect; in a disdainful manner

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

contemptuously disdainfully contumeliously bitingly critically ironically proudly sarcastically cynically arrogantly haughtily condescendingly mockingly disparagingly caustically
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Antonyms

kindly modestly sympathetically handsomely compassionately humbly
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Phrases with the word

treat scornfully

Examples

Motto of the Institute: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing; a great deal of knowledge is disaster, which detractors of the Institute scornfully paraphrase to: Somebody else's ignorance is bliss. Jack Vance

Meat!" he said scornfully. "I'm a vegetarian." You eat cheese enchiladas and aluminum cans," I reminded him. Those are vegetables. Rick Riordan

Doubting Thomases scoffed scornfully when Henry Ford tried out his first crudely built automobile on the streets of Detroit. Some said the thing never would become practical. Others said no one would pay money for such a contraption... Napoleon Hill

Pascal scornfully said that simple workmen had been able to convince of error those great men that are called 'philosophers'. It was, then, these unlearned men... who were most ready to believe 'what they saw with their eyes and touched with their hands'. Blaise Pascal

she spoke of him contemptuously Source: Internet

After Octavian's proposals for a conference with Antony had been scornfully rejected, both sides prepared for the struggle the next year. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

scornful laugh scornful smile scornfull scornfulness scorning scorningly