Word Meanings - CONTEMPTUOUSLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor.
Related words: (words related to CONTEMPTUOUSLY)
- DISDAINISHLY
Disdainfully. Vives. - DISDAINFUL
Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty. From these Turning disdainful to an equal good. Akenside. -- Dis*dain"ful*ly, adv. -- Dis*dain"ful*ness, n. - CONTEMPTUOUSLY
In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor. - CONTEMPTUOUS
Manifecting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful. A proud, contemptious behavior. Hammond. Savage invectiveand contemptuous sarcasm. Macaulay. Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of the Jews. - DISDAINED
Disdainful. Revenge the jeering and disdained contempt Of this proud king. Shak. - SCORNER
One who scorns; a despiser; a contemner; specifically, a scoffer at religion. "Great scorners of death." Spenser. Superly he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly. Prov. iii. 34. - SCORNY
Deserving scorn; paltry. - MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - MANNERISM
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural - TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in - DISDAIN
1. A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn. How my soul is moved with just disdain! Pope. Note: Often implying an idea of haughtiness. Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes. Shak. 2. - DISDAINOUSLY
Disdainfully. Bale. - SCORN
eschar, of German origin; cf. OHG. skern mockery, skern to mock; but 1. Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which aprings from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object. Scorn at first makes after love - SCORNFUL
1. Full of scorn or contempt; contemptuous; disdainful. Scornful of winter's frost and summer's sun. Prior. Dart not scornful glances from those eyes. Shak. 2. Treated with scorn; exciting scorn. The scornful mark of every open eye. Shak. Syn. - MANNERLINESS
The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale. - EMINENTLY
In an eminent manner; in a high degree; conspicuously; as, to be eminently learned. - APOSTLESHIP
The office or dignity of an apostle. - MANNERED
1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style - DISDAINOUS
Disdainful. Rom. of R. - MANNER
manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner - BESCORN
To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer. - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - PREEMINENT
Eminent above others; prominent among those who are eminent; superior in excellence; surpassing, or taking precedence of, others; rarely, surpassing others in evil, or in bad qualities; as, preëminent in guilt. In goodness and in power preëminent. - SUPEREMINENT
Eminent in a superior degree; surpassing others in excellence; as, a supereminent divine; the supereminent glory of Christ. -- Su`per*em"i*nent*ly, adv. - OVERMANNER
In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif. - OUTSCORN
To confront, or subdue, with greater scorn. Shak. - ILL-MANNERED
Impolite; rude. - WELL-MANNERED
Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.