disdainfully

Example Sentences

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The Telegraph reported lyrics from the canticle written by a chorister included "Lord, how long shall the ungodly triumph?" and "how long shall all wicked doers speak so disdainfully?"

From BBC

"Some of them are really awful," he says disdainfully of previous efforts.

From BBC

Simberg also referred disdainfully to a 2011 investigation by the National Science Foundation’s inspector general, which exonerated Mann, writing that it relied on information from Penn State and therefore was “not truly independent.”

From Los Angeles Times

Pink remains associated with femininity to this day—but in recent decades, groups once disdainfully branded with the color have made moves to reclaim it.

From National Geographic

More devastatingly, he finds himself sentenced to live past the Georgian era into the frowzy Victorian age, which could not suit him less, with its “sanctimonious” attitudes and “piety,” as he disdainfully proclaims.

From New York Times