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In a derisive manner; demeaningly, mockingly.
- 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 Lat[in] interpreters
derisively
dɪ'raɪsɪvlɪ3 senses · 112 ms
Level C2