different between mockingly vs derisively
mockingly
English
Etymology
mocking +? -ly
Adverb
mockingly (comparative more mockingly, superlative most mockingly)
- Said, written, or done with the intent to mock, or ridicule; with mocking effect.
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derisively
English
Etymology
derisive +? -ly.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /d???a?s?vli/, /d????z?vli/
- Hyphenation: de?ri?sive?ly
Adverb
derisively (comparative more derisively, superlative most derisively)
- In a derisive manner; demeaningly, mockingly.
- 1789, George Campbell, The Four Gospels, Translated from the Greek. With Preliminary Dissertations, and Notes Critical and Explanatory. [...] In Two Volumes, London: Printed for A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, ?OCLC; republished as “Art. IX. Dr. Campbell on the Four Gospels. [Article concluded.] Dissertation XII.”, in The Monthly Review; or Literary Journal, Enlarged, volume II, London: Printed for R[alph] Griffiths; and sold by T. Becket, in Pall Mall, August 1790, ?OCLC, page 411:
- As ?ometimes, with us, a que?tion is put deri?ively, in the form of an a??ertion, when the propo?er conceives, as ?eems to have happened here, ?ome ab?urdity in the thing, I thought it be?t, after the example of ?o many Lat[in] interpreters, to adopt the equivocal, or rather the oblique, form of the original expre??ion. The ambiguity is not real, but apparent.
- 1789, George Campbell, The Four Gospels, Translated from the Greek. With Preliminary Dissertations, and Notes Critical and Explanatory. [...] In Two Volumes, London: Printed for A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, ?OCLC; republished as “Art. IX. Dr. Campbell on the Four Gospels. [Article concluded.] Dissertation XII.”, in The Monthly Review; or Literary Journal, Enlarged, volume II, London: Printed for R[alph] Griffiths; and sold by T. Becket, in Pall Mall, August 1790, ?OCLC, page 411:
Synonyms
- demeaningly
- mockingly
Related terms
- derision
- derisive
- derisiveness
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