| 释义 |
scoffingly, adv.|ˈskɒfɪŋlɪ, -ɔː-|
[f. scoffing ppl. a. + -ly2.]
In a scoffing manner.
1538Elyot Dict., Ironice, mockyshly, scoffyngly. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 32 b, To this decree of theyrs aunswereth Philip Melancthon, and after that Luther him selfe, but skoffyngly. 1641Pet. Istleworth 4 He had rather hear an Organ..than singing of Psalmes, which scoffingly he called Hopkins his jigges. 1725Pope's Odyss. iii. Notes I. 167 What the Suitors had spoken scoffingly in the preceding book,..appears in this not to be impracticable. 1870R. C. Jebb Sophocles' Electra (ed. 2) 126/1 Clytaemnestra says scoffingly..‘now by thy favourite goddess’. |
