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from The Century Dictionary.

  • With contempt.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb Contemptuously.

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  • adverb Contemptuously; in a despicable manner.

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Examples

  • Good Madam Rich, my sister-in-law, how despisingly you talk.

    The Beau Defeated: or, The Lucky Younger Brother 1999

  • After meeting recently your worthy ancestors, the two Dukes of Ning and Jung, who opened their hearts and made their wishes known to me with such fervour, (but I will not have you solely on account of the splendour of our inner apartments look down despisingly upon the path of the world),

    Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

  • "Throw it to the bandits outside the door, Jacopo," said the sailor, despisingly.

    The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I Jules Lermina 1877

  • Church itself, they chose the separation, within the Church, of the pious from communion with the mass of the Church, and thereby rendered the exclusion of the immoral from the Church more impracticable than ever, — in other words, that, instead of morally purifying the natural elements that inhered both in themselves and in the society, they despisingly withdrew the spiritual from all contact with the natural.

    Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

  • Aristotle unquestionably excepts the true philosophers as the elect few, from the otherwise all-prevalent moral corruption, does not offer any thing similar to the Christian doctrine of natural sinfulness, but indeed the very opposite, — is not, as the Christian doctrine, an expression of deep humility, but on the contrary, of unmeasured pride, as despisingly conscious of a superiority to the rest of mankind.

    Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

  • For if a man that seeth it to be his duty, shall despisingly neglect it; or if he that hath not faith about it, shall foolishly take it up: both these are for this the worse; I mean, as to their own sense, being convicted in themselves, as transgressors.

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

  • Now, if she comes to one that is dead, that she is confident will not grow, up she pulls that, and makes to the heap of rubbish with it, where she despisingly casts it down, and valueth it no more than a nettle, or a weed, or than the dust she hath swept out of her walks.

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658

  • Neither if I be baptized, am I the better, neither if I be not, am I the worse: not the better before God: not the worse before men: still meaning as Paul doth, provided I walk according to my light with God: otherwise it is false; for if a man that seeth it to be his duty shall despisingly neglect it; or if he that hath no faith therein shall foolishly take it up; both these are for this the worse, being convicted in themselves for transgressors.

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

  • "That son of Sparks's, as you so despisingly call him, dearest papa, is a most charming partner; while Lord Dudley, and my cousin Robert, are little better than boors.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various

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