Expressing extreme contempt.
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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