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Meanings of contemptuous in English
Usage of contemptuous in English
1
In a way she was terrified; in another way she was contemptuous.
2
Rhoda dressed the question for him in the terror of contemptuous horror.
3
The general manager pursed a contemptuous mouth and departed from the cabin.
4
They react to a system that doesn't value them by being contemptuous.
5
In face, watchful behind a blind; habitually not uncensorious and contemptuous perhaps.
6
The Illinois Central railroad puffed contemptuous cinders into the great blue lake.
7
A group of howlers somewhere in the forest hooted a contemptuous response.
8
Then in a familiar and cordial though rather contemptuous way he stopped
9
The Gaul cast a contemptuous glance at the Roman, and answered promptly:
10
There was, as she thought, something contemptuous in the good-humor of it.
11
Kelson blew away the suggestion of mystery in a short, contemptuous laugh.
12
Hannah laughed too, in contemptuous amusement at the rigidity of Jewish Law.
13
Worse, the word seems almost always being used in a contemptuous manner!
14
Outwardly calm, even contemptuous, but something, an instinct perhaps, gave another impression.
15
Saint Hubert dismissed the remark with a contemptuous wave of the hand.
16
Shelby laughed him in the face, too contemptuous to set him right.
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Contemptuous through the time
Contemptuous across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common