disdainfully
disdainfully adverb: in a disdainful manner.
Adverb
disdainfully (comparative more disdainfully, superlative most disdainfully)
- In a disdainful manner.
- "There are other people coming besides the Princess Ziska, are there not, Mr. Murray?" inquired Sir Chetwynd Lyle, with an obtrusively bantering air. Denzil Murray glanced him over disdainfully.1897, Marie Corelli, “Chapter I”, in Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul, New York: Stone & Kimball, page 36
- In what the antistock Carbon County Journal referred to disdainfully as "another of those farcical cattle cases," he was charged with running his own Staircase brand over a neighboring L 7 […], a charge which if true was not farcical at all.1966, Helena Huntington Smith, The War on Powder River, page 68
disdainfully meaning in Tamil and Malayalam
disdainfully in Tamil
- அவமதிப்பு
disdainfully in Malayalam
- അവജ്ഞയോടെ, ധാർഷ്ട്യത്തോടെ
Forms of disdainfully
| comparative | more disdainfully |
|---|---|
| superlative | most disdainfully |
Origin of disdainfully
From disdainful + -ly.
Questions about disdainfully
- What does disdainfully mean?
- Disdainfully means in a disdainful manner.
- What is disdainfully in Tamil?
- Disdainfully in Tamil is அவமதிப்பு. See Disdainfully meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is disdainfully?
- Disdainfully is an adverb.
Words near disdainfully in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: disdainfully (page history and authors); disdainfully (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disdainfully (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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