Meanings of too contemptuous in English

Shelby laughed him in the face, too contemptuous to set him right.

The overseer was too contemptuous and perhaps too languid in the stifling heat of approaching noontide to correct his course.

He was a man too strong in himself and too contemptuous of weakness to show to all the world his hurt.

At most he only asked Georges and Aurora not to be too contemptuous of those who, like himself, did not share their faith.

P.S.-Ifmy manuscript appears too flat, too contemptuous, too spiteful, or too anything, I earnestly beseech you to throw it into the fire.

Contemptuous enough, perhaps too contemptuous, of human frailties, he at least knew how to make them entertaining, and his urbane irony dissolved pretentious egoism.

Keepers of inns are not rarely in evidence in the literature of satire and epigram, and no language seems too contemptuous for their alleged dishonesty.