scornfully
Often the homeless are looked upon scornfully so Adam makes an effort to treat them with compassion and dignity.
Scornfully is defined as something done without respect, or something done showing displeasure.
If you look at someone with raised eyebrows to indicate your displeasure and disrespect, this is an example of when you gazescornfully at the person.
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Sentence Examples
- She stopped and smiled scornfully.
- "Seems to me the same way," said Billina, scornfully, "if that beastly cat is one of them."
- Meanwhile, Mehemet Ali had scornfully rejected the offers of the Porte; he would be content with nothing but the concession of his full demands - Syria, Icheli, Aleppo, Damascus and Adana.
- He maintained an attitude of defiance and of "Roman resolution," smiled scornfully at his questioners, making no secret of his intentions, replied to the king, who asked why he would kill him, that the pope had excommunicated him, that "dangerous diseases require a desperate remedy," adding fiercely to the Scottish courtiers who surrounded him that "one of his objects was to blow back the Scots into Scotland."