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skilfully [ˈskɪlfəli] ADV Brit, Aus

dreadfully [ˈdredfəlɪ] ADV

1. dreadfully (in a terrible manner):

2. dreadfully (very poorly):

3. dreadfully (extremely):

I . disdain [dɪsˈdeɪn] N no pl

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They are extremely good at what they are doing but it is wrong, disturbing and disdainfully unhelpful.
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The damaging precedent would have been if the court instead allowed companies to treat trademark so disdainfully as a technical end-around to patent law.
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So one day she beautified and scented herself for him, and she behaved herself haughtily towards him, and treated him disdainfully.
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They are thus viewed, disdainfully in some quarters, as outsiders.
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Rolling her eyes disdainfully, she pointed at the snow.
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The third was disdainfully scythed through extra cover.
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Should we be hearing what the creators themselves often disdainfully call "juvenilia"?
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What is it about women's private parts that these have to be disdainfully dragged into discussions?
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To his shock, his dear guru rejects him disdainfully as his son-in-law.
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Magnus eyes me disdainfully, turns on his cloven hoof and plods off, following the trail of food.
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