CONTEMPTUOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does contemptuously mean? 

• CONTEMPTUOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb CONTEMPTUOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. without respect; in a disdainful manner

  Familiarity information: CONTEMPTUOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTEMPTUOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without respect; in a disdainful manner

Synonyms:

contemptuously; contumeliously; disdainfully; scornfully

Context example:

she spoke of him contemptuously

Pertainym:

contemptuous (expressing extreme contempt)

 Context examples 

She tried to sniff contemptuously, but succeeded in producing only a sniffle.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The giant looked contemptuously at the tailor, and said: “You ragamuffin! You miserable creature!”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“I thought you said you knowed the rules,” returned Silver contemptuously.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“His misfortunes!” repeated Darcy contemptuously; “yes, his misfortunes have been great indeed.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

And each time Zilla had looked sourer than ever and grunted more contemptuously.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The otherwise immovable Miss Murdstone laughed contemptuously in one short syllable.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"That is to say," cried Marianne contemptuously, "he has told you, that in the East Indies the climate is hot, and the mosquitoes are troublesome."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

And thus he continued on, while my colour came and went several times, with indignation, to hear our noble country, the mistress of arts and arms, the scourge of France, the arbitress of Europe, the seat of virtue, piety, honour, and truth, the pride and envy of the world, so contemptuously treated.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The disgrace of his first marriage might, perhaps, as there was no reason to suppose it perpetuated by offspring, have been got over, had he not done worse; but he had, as by the accustomary intervention of kind friends, they had been informed, spoken most disrespectfully of them all, most slightingly and contemptuously of the very blood he belonged to, and the honours which were hereafter to be his own.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

"You live in West Egg," she remarked contemptuously. "I know somebody there."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)