scorningly
- a word derived from scorn.
Example Sentences
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That," said the good wife shrewishly, turning her eyes scorningly across her nose, "is not good asking at a change-house.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
"Why, as to that," I cried out scorningly, "I know nothing of you save that I saw you but now in the barber's chair, swathed up in a towel and your face all lathered."
From Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Wallis, Arthur F.
