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# disdainfully

«disdainfully» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a scornful way, showing you think someone is beneath you** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (disdainfully)

### meaning for a pupil

In a scornful way, showing you think someone is beneath you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disdainfully/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a character speaks or looks disdainfully at someone they think is worse than themselves

### examples

- “Oh, indeed,” he said disdainfully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disdainfully/#x1)
- Grumedan looked on disdainfully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disdainfully/#x2)
- She sniffed disdainfully at the cheap cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disdainfully/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «disdainfully» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disdainfully/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.