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Derisively

//dɪˈɹaɪsɪvli// adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a derisive manner; demeaningly, mockingly.

    "As ſometimes, with us, a queſtion is put deriſively, in the form of an aſſertion, when the propoſer conceives, as ſeems to have happened here, ſome abſurdity in the thing, I thought it beſt, after the example of ſo many Lat[in] interpreters, to adopt the equivocal, or rather the oblique, form of the original expreſſion. The ambiguity is not real, but apparent."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a disrespectful and mocking manner wordnet

Etymology

From derisive + -ly.

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