scornfully

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Recent Examples of scornfully As if the question arose, thought Leonora scornfully. Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scornfully
Adverb
  • The camera then switches from the chaos of the puppy, to the kitten—who is sitting in a relaxed position, blinking slowly, and staring almost disdainfully at the wriggling puppy.
    Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Bella, in her podcast conversation with Trinny Woodall, recalled that once, at a village post office, a shop assistant disdainfully called her a hippie.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Maduro has viciously attacked political opponents and presided over the country’s economic collapse.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Krasznahorkai was born in Hungary in 1954, two years before the Soviets viciously crushed an uprising in Budapest, and his first two novels are soaked through with an atmosphere of political terror.
    Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Taylor makes a persuasive case for how artists can grow, if incrementally and maybe bitterly, amid so much numbing digital noise.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Fede knows the truth, but Roberto doesn’t, and Fede has held that over Antonio ever since, with Antonio bitterly blaming himself for his wife’s death.
    Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 12 Oct. 2025

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“Scornfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scornfully. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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