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comparative more scornfully, superlative most scornfully
In a scornful manner. quotations examples
"Do they not sneakingly bestow on me their crass inability to do anything with their own misbegotten progeny, a subterfuge which I scornfully fub off on text-books?"
1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, page 82
'What does he look like?' asks John Halgard. 'A salesman,' says Gerontius scornfully.
1985, Joan Morrison, chapter 7, in Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 91