contemptuous

• Although I've lived in an area with lots of people similar to the ones in this article and I can tell you many of them are just as critical, contemptuous, and full of an air of superiority as the worst liberal stereotype. —  NYT > Opinion
• Has nothing to do with ID or any other point: Yours is very simply contemptuous, arrogant attack, entirely uncalled-for via either this circumstance or ongoing S-N situation. —  Salem-News.com
• Really, we are dealing with a culture within Irish society that is ruthlessly selfish, quite secretive, contemptuous, and economically useless. —  Irish Blogs
• Suddenly their song ceased, and they listened in a silence of sheer amazement while Donald Ward addressed their captain Say"--his voice was cold, clear, and contemptuous--"do you call yourself a captain? —  The Northern Iron
• The eyes of the guest, contemptuous, amused, seeing through him, were fixed upon him. —  The Phantoms Of The Foot-Bridge 1895

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