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单词 scornfully
释义
scornfully
adverb
uk
/ˈskɔːn.fəl.i/us
/ˈskɔːrn.fəl.i/
in a way thatshowsyou have norespectfor someone or something andthinkthey arestupid:
轻蔑地
Loganlookedat him scornfully.洛根轻蔑地看着他。
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scornful
More examples
  • "It's not ahouse," he says scornfully. "It's awagon."
  • Robyntossedherheadscornfully.
  • Shelaughedscornfully.
  • "Why should she do that?" mymotherhadaskedscornfully.
  • They haddeliberatelyand scornfullydismissedtheworkofastronomers.
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(Definition ofscornfullyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofscornfully

scornfully
If it is not withdrawn, it should be resoundingly andscornfullyrejected.
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It would perhaps be too strong to say that he spokescornfullyof voluntary service, but at any rate he was not enthusiastic about it.
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He pointedscornfullyat these benches and said that we were divided, that we were unable to put up a case owing to party differences.
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I do not say thatscornfullybut understandingly.
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It is not so long ago that people referredscornfullyto guest house keepers and travel agents.
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We cannot seriously undertake a programme on energy efficiency with the budget which theyscornfullysuggest as being appropriate.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
We have been called in the past, tauntingly,scornfully, a nation of shopkeepers.
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Was ever a proposal soscornfullytorn to tatters as he did with this proposal of fixing prices?
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Those were the electrical experts who are soscornfullydescribed as men with no practical experience.
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They have been received discourteously, angrily, andscornfullyin many quarters.
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That was the bribe they offered; and it wasscornfullyrejected.
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Much is said, sometimesscornfully, about the moral fibre of the nation.
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They should not be toldscornfullyand reproachfully what they must do, because whoever and whatever and wherever they are, they will refuse.
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I judge that, if provided with the facts, they willscornfullyreject them.
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Many stayed in the state and became political and business leaders (scornfullyknown as carpetbaggers).
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