单词 | scoffingly |
释义 | scoffinglyadv. In a scoffing manner. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [adverb] scoffingly1538 tauntingly1549 gibingly1602 jeeringly1637 scommatically1656 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Ironice, mockyshly, scoffyngly. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxxijv To this decree of theyrs aunswereth Philip Melancthon, and after that Luther him selfe, but skoffyngly. 1641 Pet. Istleworth 4 He had rather hear an Organ..than singing of Psalmes, which scoffingly he called Hopkins his jigges. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. Observ. 167 What the Suitors had spoken scoffingly in the preceding book,..appears in this not to be impracticable. 1870 R. C. Jebb Sophocles' Electra (ed. 2) 126/1 Clytaemnestra says scoffingly..‘now by thy favourite goddess’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1538 |
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