Usually means: With contempt or disdainful mockery.
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  1. scornfully: Merriam-Webster
  2. scornfully: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scornfully: Collins English Dictionary
  4. scornfully: Vocabulary.com
  5. Scornfully, scornfully: Wordnik
  6. scornfully: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. scornfully: Wiktionary
  8. scornfully: Dictionary.com
  9. scornfully: Rhymezone
  10. scornfully: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. scornfully: FreeDictionary.org
  12. scornfully: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. scornfully: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. scornfully: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (scornfully)

▸ adverb:  In a scornful manner.

Similar:
contumeliously, disdainfully, contemptuously, showing contempt, scoffingly, scorningly, scathingly, sneeringly, unscornfully, scoldingly, more...

Opposite:
reverently, respectfully, reverentially

Types:
contemptuously, derisively, mockingly, sneeringly, disdainfully, more...

Phrases:
spoke scornfully, scornfully cynical, say scornfully, speaks of scornfully, pressed lips together scornfully, more...

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    charcoal,     ash gray,     slate gray,     stormy gray,     midnight blue, more...



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Similar:
contumeliously, disdainfully, contemptuously, showing contempt, scoffingly, scorningly, scathingly, sneeringly, unscornfully, scoldingly, more...

Opposite:
reverently, respectfully, reverentially

Types:
contemptuously, derisively, mockingly, sneeringly, disdainfully, more...

Phrases:
spoke scornfully, scornfully cynical, say scornfully, speaks of scornfully, pressed lips together scornfully, speak scornfully, more...

Colors:
    charcoal,     ash gray,     slate gray,     stormy gray,     midnight blue, more...



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