Worse, the word seems almost always being used in a contemptuous manner!

At this point Mrs. Dagon coughed in an incredulous and contemptuous manner.

Some critics have spoken in the same contemptuous manner of history.

Gazing at him in a humorously contemptuous manner as he said:

This was said with a dry tone, and hard, contemptuous manner.

He raised his head, and said, in a contemptuous manner:

Fanny snorted in a most contemptuous manner, and tossed her head with great scorn.

His contemptuous manner dropped from him, and in eager excitement he leaned forward and exclaimed:

Peter chuckled in the contemptuous manner of a practical man, without sympathy for speculative genius.

Lupin in a most contemptuous manner, said: "What utter rot."

Frewen's hands clenched, but he replied quietly, though he was inwardly raging at Keller's contemptuous manner-

The daring and contemptuous manner in which he bade defiance to his enemies excited their deadly hatred.

Tolstoy, in his Fruits of Enlightenment, had shown us through it in his most ferociously contemptuous manner.

Meantime Colonel Cresswell's lawyer was on his feet, and he adopted his most irritating and contemptuous manner.

Paul was wounded by Tantaine's contemptuous manner.

The contemptuous manner in which I had been received aroused within me a very unusual state of mind.