| 单词 |
scornfully |
| 释义 |
scornfully, adv.|ˈskɔːnfʊlɪ|
[f. scornful a. + -ly2.]
In a scornful manner.
c1380Sir Ferumb. 356 Fyrumbras on him glente ys eyȝe scornfullich & low. 1447O. Bokenham Seyntys vii. 156 (Horstm.) Oon Theophyl preyid hyr schornfully..That she sum rosys wold hym sendyn hastyly From hyr spousys gardyn. 1533Bellenden Livy iii. 242 And in þe mene tyme ane of þe equis cryit skornefully, It was propir to romanis erare to mak ane vane manassing, þan to gif batall. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, iv. ii. 42 Their ragged Curtaines poorely are let loose, And our Ayre shakes them passing scornefully. 1661Cowley Vis. Cromwell 55 It was bold to violate so openly and so scornfully all Acts and Constitutions of a Nation, and afterwards even of his own making. 1783W. Thomson Watson's Philip III (1839) 367 He scornfully declined to solemnize the double marriages. 1835W. Irving Tour Prairies xxiv, ‘Bread,’ he would say, scornfully, ‘is only fit for a child.’ 1906H. Van Dyke Ideals viii. 153 It is the fashion nowadays to speak scornfully of a book religion. |
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