derisively

suomi-englanti sanakirja

derisively englannista suomeksi

1. ivallisesti

1. pilkallisesti

derisively englanniksi

1. In a derisive manner; demeaningly, mockingly.

2. 1789, Campbell (minister)|George Campbell, ''The Four Gospels, Translated from the Greek. With Preliminary Dissertations, and Notes Critical and Explanatory.'' ... ''In Two Volumes'', London: Printed for Strahan|Andrew Strahan; and Cadell (publisher)|Thomas Cadell, (OCLC); republished as “Art. IX. Dr. Campbell ''on the Four Gospels''. ''Article concluded.'' Dissertation XII.”, in ''Review (London)|The Monthly Review; or Literary Journal, Enlarged'', volume II, London: Printed for Griffiths|Ralph Griffiths; and sold by T. Becket, in Mall, London|Pall Mall, August 1790, (OCLC), page 411:

As ſometimes, with us, a queſtion is put deriſively, in the form of an aſſertion, when the propoſer conceives, as ſeems to have happened here, ſome abſurdity in the thing, I thought it beſt, after the example of ſo many Latin interpreters, to adopt the equivocal, or rather the oblique, form of the original expreſſion. The ambiguity is not real, but apparent.

3. (quote-book), 27 & 29 Street (Manhattan)|West Twenty-third Street|year=1884|volume=II|page=100|pageurl=https://archive.org/stream/cu31924026355929page/n127/mode/1up/|oclc=70191198|passage=In the personal bearing of Adolphus of Sweden|Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, more distinctly than in his high aims, it now became evident that he deemed himself free from the obligations of deference to others, and regarded his own aspirations as his sole standard of action; he expressed himself to the Marquis as disapproving of the French King's course because he did not set himself up as the reformer of his Church, and he spoke derisively of the Pope.

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