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Significados de contemptuous em inglês

Expressing extreme contempt.

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Uso de contemptuous em inglês
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In a way she was terrified; in another way she was contemptuous.
The Necromancers
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Rhoda dressed the question for him in the terror of contemptuous horror.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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The general manager pursed a contemptuous mouth and departed from the cabin.
Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast
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They react to a system that doesn't value them by being contemptuous.
The Guardian
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In face, watchful behind a blind; habitually not uncensorious and contemptuous perhaps.
Bleak House
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The Illinois Central railroad puffed contemptuous cinders into the great blue lake.
Fanny Herself
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A group of howlers somewhere in the forest hooted a contemptuous response.
Mech
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Then in a familiar and cordial though rather contemptuous way he stopped
Jean-Christophe, Volume I
9
The Gaul cast a contemptuous glance at the Roman, and answered promptly:
The Emperor — Volume 09
10
There was, as she thought, something contemptuous in the good-humor of it.
The Evil Genius: A Domestic Story
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Kelson blew away the suggestion of mystery in a short, contemptuous laugh.
The Hunt Ball Mystery
12
Hannah laughed too, in contemptuous amusement at the rigidity of Jewish Law.
Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
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Worse, the word seems almost always being used in a contemptuous manner!
Jamaica Observer
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Outwardly calm, even contemptuous, but something, an instinct perhaps, gave another impression.
Sword of Honour
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Saint Hubert dismissed the remark with a contemptuous wave of the hand.
The Sheik: A Novel
16
Shelby laughed him in the face, too contemptuous to set him right.
The Henchman
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