Synonyms:
contemptuously, disdainfully, scornfully, contumeliously
Meaning: without respect; in a disdainful manner; "she spoke of him contemptuously"
Usage examples
'You!' said the Caterpillar contemptuously.
The American laughed a trace contemptuously.
But the third said contemptuously, 'It is not worth the trouble!
His request was not granted and Helge dismissed him contemptuously.
Raising her head, she looks contemptuously in his face, and repeats, 'You tell me!
"Do that again, you lubber!" exclaimed Bob, contemptuously apostrophising the brig.
Mr. Melbury was standing by, and exclaimed, contemptuously, "Tell her fortune, indeed!
The armistice conditions proposed by the Mensheviki, he said, had been contemptuously rejected.
"It is quite impossible," said Campbell, somewhat contemptuously; "I have business at Rothbury."
Two years ago she had come with her child to make her home amongst her husband's people, and though at first her mother-in-law, Mrs. Platt, was inclined to look upon her contemptuously as a poor, delicate, useless creature, time proved to her that for steady, quiet work no one could eclipse her daughter-in-law.