| 单词 | scornfully |
| 释义 | scornfully (once / 1231 pages) adv If you say something scornfully, you say it in a contemptuous or disgusted way. You might remark scornfully that your brother's breath smells bad. Ewwww. You might be afraid to try out your high school French at a fancy restaurant in France, for fear that the waiter might laugh scornfully at you. When a teacher is impatient and lacks respect for a student's ideas, he may speak scornfully. The adverb scornfully means "in a way that's full of scorn," and the noun scorn comes from the Old French escarn, "mockery, contempt, or derision." WORD FAMILYscornful: scornfully+/scorn: scorned, scorner, scornful, scorning, scorns/scorner: scorners USAGE EXAMPLESMr Oettinger was speaking scornfully about the EU's battle to get Belgian approval for the landmark Ceta trade deal with Canada. BBC(Oct 31, 2016) Shriver recounted the events scornfully, poking fun at Bowdoin students and administration, and their talk about empathy and safe spaces. The New Yorker(Sep 14, 2016) In the letters, Mr Vines said the Newsnight presenter acted "scornfully" towards him after he told her he loved her. BBC(Sep 02, 2016) adv without respect; in a disdainful manner Syn contemptuously, contumeliously, disdainfully |
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