contemptuous
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7.0
- adjective
- /kənˈtɛmptʃuəs/
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desdeñoso
- His contemptuous remarks about her intelligence were hurtful and unnecessary.
- openly contemptuous
So it's sort of this contemptuous rejection of them.
- So it's sort of this contemptuous rejection of them.
- You know, he was so contemptuous.
- The face the person now is unseeing, unempathic and contemptuous or distracted.
- They're they're self contemptuous, they're vicious.
- Ham was the contemptuous son, also the one who wanted to fuck his dad.
- Well, the problem is that the person who's contemptuous, that person's immune system also degrades, right over time, right?
Examples
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Darla threw her a contemptuous glance and turned her eyes back to the road.
Fiction book (1991) -
Her behaviour today is just contemptuous of this Parliament and of this process.
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So sweet with me, and so contemptuous of everyone else.
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If you draw close to them, they are contemptuous of you.
Academic text (1999) -
We found the professor to be openly critical, even contemptuous, of most of her students.
Academic text (2006) -
The labor and socialist press were particularly contemptuous of student society and culture.
Academic text (1994) -
For a moment, he surveys the store and casts contemptuous glances up and down the ruined street.
Fiction book (1992) -
Icy scorn glitters in the gray eyes, contemptuous and cruel.
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Jill shifted her frosty, contemptuous gaze from Sharon Williams to the dean.
Fiction book (1996) -
Scalia has castigated the Court for its contemptuous disregard of the democratic principle in several powerful dissents.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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Being rude or saying things that hurt someone
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3.0
Not polite to someone, for example interrupting them
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5.6
Acting as if someone or something is not important
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6.9
Expressing an insulting, disrespectful view of someone or something
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8.2
Showing strong dislike of someone or something, often used about words
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7.0
Showing that you think someone or something is not worth respect
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5.1
Showing that you think someone does not deserve respect
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7.0
Showing a low opinion of someone or something
Being arrogantly rude and openly disrespectful to other people
Antonyms
How Contemptuous
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Morphology
Etymology
Contemptuous comes from an old Latin verb temnere, which means 'to scorn', and it is the same idea behind the English word contempt or the simple word 'scorn'. So, if someone is contemptuous they show strong dislike and disrespect.