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Disdainfully

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Adverb
  1. 1
    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."

Adverb
  1. 1
    without respect; in a disdainful manner wordnet
  2. 2
    in a proud and domineering manner wordnet

Etymology

From disdainful + -ly.

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