scornfully

副词 adv.
/ˈskɔːnfəli/    /ˈskɔɹnfəli/

英文释义

副词 adv.
  1. In a scornful manner; contemptuously, derisively.
    — "Do they not sneakingly bestow on me their crass inability to do anything with their own misbegotten progeny, a subterfuge which I scornfully fub off on text-books?"

词形变化

more scornfully comparative most scornfully superlative

词源

Etymology tree
Middle English scorn
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós
Proto-Germanic *fullaz
Proto-Germanic *-fullaz
Old English -ful
Middle English -ful
Middle English scornful
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
Middle English scornfully
English scornfully
Inherited from Middle English scornfully; equivalent to scornful + -ly (adverbial suffix).
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