| 词汇 | scornfully |
| 释义 | scornfully adverb uk /ˈskɔːn.fəl.i/ us /ˈskɔːrn.fəl.i/ in a way that shows you have no respect for someone or something and think they are stupid: 轻蔑地 Logan looked at him scornfully.洛根轻蔑地看着他。 See scornful "It's not a house," he says scornfully. "It's a wagon." Robyn tossed her head scornfully. She laughed scornfully. "Why should she do that?" my mother had asked scornfully. They had deliberately and scornfully dismissed the work of astronomers. Treating as unimportant blow something/someone off brush brush someone/something aside chopped liver damn denigrate denigration laugh laugh something off leave something at the dooridiom look down on someone minoritize mock never shrug away shrug something off skate skate over/around something sniff at something sweep something aside Examples of scornfullyscornfully If it is not withdrawn, it should be resoundingly and scornfully rejected. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would perhaps be too strong to say that he spoke scornfully of voluntary service, but at any rate he was not enthusiastic about it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He pointed scornfully at these benches and said that we were divided, that we were unable to put up a case owing to party differences. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not say that scornfully but understandingly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not so long ago that people referred scornfully to guest house keepers and travel agents. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We cannot seriously undertake a programme on energy efficiency with the budget which they scornfully suggest as being appropriate. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We have been called in the past, tauntingly, scornfully, a nation of shopkeepers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Was ever a proposal so scornfully torn to tatters as he did with this proposal of fixing prices? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Those were the electrical experts who are so scornfully described as men with no practical experience. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have been received discourteously, angrily, and scornfully in many quarters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That was the bribe they offered; and it was scornfully rejected. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Much is said, sometimes scornfully, about the moral fibre of the nation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They should not be told scornfully and reproachfully what they must do, because whoever and whatever and wherever they are, they will refuse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I judge that, if provided with the facts, they will scornfully reject them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many stayed in the state and became political and business leaders (scornfully known as carpetbaggers). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. See all examples of scornfully These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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