disparagingly

adverb

dis·​par·​ag·​ing·​ly

: in a manner that belittles the value or importance of someone or something : in a disparaging manner

a word used disparagingly

these mythological figures are occasionally described almost disparagingly as belonging "only to a story" …

—F. G. Hawley

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