contemptuously

• POS: Adverb
• HYPHEN: con=temp=tu=ous=ly

CIDE DICTIONARY

contemptuously, adv. 

 In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully.  [1913 Webster]
"The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously."  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

contemptuously

Contempt

N contempt, disdain, scorn, sovereign contempt, despisal, despiciency, despisement, vilipendency, contumely, slight, sneer, spurn, by-word, despect, contemptuousness, scornful eye, smile of contempt, derision, despisedness, contemptuous, disdainful, scornful, withering, contumelious, supercilious, cynical, haughty, bumptious, cavalier, derisive, contemptible, despicable, pitiable, pitiful, despised, downtrodden, unenvied, unrespectable (unworthy), contemptuously, Int, a fig for, bah!, never mind!, away with!, hang it!, fiddlededee!, a dismal universal hiss, the sound of public scorn, I had rather be a dog and bay the moon than such a.