scornfully UK /ˈskɔːnfəli/US /ˈskɔɹnfəli/ adverb1 •In a scornful manner; contemptuously, derisively."Do they not sneakingly bestow on me their crass inability to do anything with their own misbegotten progeny, a subterfuge which I scornfully fub off on text-books?" — 1930 formsmore scornfully · most scornfully