mockingly, adv.
(ˈmɒkɪŋlɪ)
[f. mocking ppl. a. + -ly2.]
In a mocking manner.
| 1545 Elyot Dict., Nasute, wyttyly, mockyngly. 1602 Warner Alb. Eng. ix. xlvi. (1612) 215 And, he saying, Let vs meete, ‘Let's meete’, quoth Echo mockingly. 1863 Geo. Eliot Romola xxx, Whispers which died out mockingly as he strained his ear after them. |