Synonym: disdainful, insulting, scornful. Similar words: contempt, sumptuous, presumptuous, tempestuous, contemplate, contemporary, voluptuous, contretemps. Meaning: [-tjʊəs] adj. expressing extreme contempt.
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(31) Remove Goblin casualties with a deliberately contemptuous gesture or casual lack of concern if it makes you feel better.
(32) I had spoken in jest, but Challenger gave a contemptuous snort.
(33) How can that be so when today's diktat is a contemptuous dismissal of the community's united protest?
(34) Watching that fair, contemptuous face he thought how well he knew the type from his own school.
(35) In this detention centre, contemptuous and inhuman attitudes have hardened into set rules.
(36) It is frequently instilled at a delicate age, as a result of the internalization of a contemptuous voice, usually parental.
(37) She circled Tallis twice, staring down at her, not touching, not acknowledging her beyond the hard, contemptuous stare.
(38) Franklin was contemptuous of the Iroquois and referred to them as savages.
(39) Successful engineering students tended to be contemptuous of the work habits of lesser mortals.
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(41) Most Tory propagandists continued to hold a rather contemptuous view of the populace.
(42) He was a Gemini, complex and clever, a dual personality who could run rings round her with contemptuous ease.
(43) Wu Sun - fu broke into a contemptuous laugh.
(44) Child-welfare professionals were contemptuous of the Holts.
(45) Obstinate or contemptuous resistance to authority; stubborn rebelliousness.
(46) He was looking at me with a contemptuous glance.
(47) Uncle Tom is critical and contemptuous.
(48) The newer society outs the old with contemptuous ease.
(49) A contemptuous smile flitted across Injun Joe's face.
(50) You should not be contemptuous of underprivileged people.
(51) She's contemptuous of my humble home and poor surroundings.
(52) He was contemptuous of private farmers.
(53) Wharton gave a contemptuous shrug of the shoulders.
(54) Be aimed at this network interlocution , official of the White House reminds participator to respect other viewpoint[sentencedict.com], avoid to use contemptuous sex language.
(55) His tipsiness had worn off and left his face pale and his eyes bloodshot. He could no. longer even muster up his usual cool, contemptuous smile.
(56) The importance of the hive is strongly engrained in the Geonosian mind, and they are, as a whole, contemptuous of other species.
(57) Proud men demeaned themselves and their families to accept official charity from a contemptuous officialdom.
(58) " Guinea hens ,'said Archie suddenly and his voice was contemptuous.
(59) Rommel and his junior officers were openly contemptuous of the Americans'ability to fight.
(60) So Phillip Tattaglia would rant on to audiences unsympathetic and contemptuous.
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