scornfully

«scornfully» in Mova's school dictionary: in a way that shows you think someone or something is… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adverb (more scornfully, most scornfully)

meaning for a pupil

Scornfully means in a way that shows you think someone or something is foolish or not worth respect. tree →

sense in the lessons

in stories, how a character speaks or laughs at someone who is weak or silly

examples

• «No!» he said scornfully. tree →
• The Fox laughed scornfully at the Crow. tree →
• She looked at the frog scornfully and walked away. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek scornfully; they gather themselves together against me.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «scornfully» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.