Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of contempt; despicable; contemptible; disgraceful.
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Examples
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I work all day every day with them being in county IT, and get nothing but contemptful stares and responses in a dismissive tone of voice from them.
John Joseph Adams » The Ballad of the Eight Hundred Dollar Ticket 2006
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In the same issue of the UU World, one of the letters to the editor describes people she sounds contemptful of as "values-relative materialists".
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Sure, just because Scott Reid, John Duffy, David Herle, Joe Volpe etc have said similarly stupid and contemptful things within the last year, can we really blame the whole Liberal Party for it?
Archive 2005-12-01 ALW 2005
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The other battalions also suffered terribly, having been equally contemptful of danger.
Some Naval Yarns Mordaunt Hall
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Hope more people will be suspicous and contemptful of ...
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Hope more people will be suspicous and contemptful of ...
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It is true that there are Sunni populations who aren’t as fanatically and violently contemptful of Shia as the more hardline Salafists takfiris.
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