adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a contemptuous manner; with contempt or scorn; scornfully, disdainfully.
1591. Horsey, Trav. (Hakluyt Soc.), App. 343. The presents … wear … retourned to mee, and very contemptuouslie cast down beefore mee.
1611. Bible, Ps. xxxi. 18. Lying lippes … which speake grieuous things … contemptuously against the righteous.
1697. Collier, Ess. Mor. Subj., I. (1709), 92. To Check an insolent Humour in others, who behave themselves Contemptuously towards us.
1776. Adam Smith, W. N., I. I. x. pt. 2. 133. How contemptuously soever they may affect to speak.
1856. Froude, Hist. Eng. (1858), I. iii. 268. Contemptuously indifferent to justice.
† b. With contempt or disregard of law and authority. Obs.
1529. Act 21 Hen. VIII., c. 16 § 11. The said Strangers Artificers … cease not contemptuously … to abuse the said Statutes.
1688. Act 1 Will. & M., c. 18 § 18. If any … Persons do … maliciously or contemptuously come into any Cathedral or Parish Church, Chapel, or other Congregation permitted by this Act, and disquiet or disturb the same.
1800. Addison, Amer. Law Rep., 267. Indicted for … contemptuously tearing down and contemptuously refusing to replace, an advertisement set up by the commissioners.
