How To Use Contemptuous In A Sentence

Of course the 'nester' or 'punkin roller,' as we contemptuously called the small farmer, began sifting in here and there in spite of our guns, but he was only a mosquito bite in comparison with the trouble which our cow-punchers stirred up. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West
He contemptuously dismissed any suggestion to the effect that the dollar was overvalued, or that its climb to record highs on a trade-weighted basis was becoming a source of economic instability.
He accepted the situation, happy in the gentle and protecting affection the girl showed him, fitfully enough, for she had, as she called it, her bad days when she used to visit her mother and remain long hours in the riverside hut, coming out as inscrutable as ever, but with a contemptuous look and a short word ready to answer any of his speeches. Almayer's Folly
Few then or now would be as openly contemptuous of the life of the mind as Grant. Times, Sunday Times
The insurgents refer contemptuously to the ISI as "blacklegs," for their supposedly darker skin. With Friends Like These…

And the issue is this -- starting from the contemptuous defiance of the scriptural doctrine upon the necessity of making provision for poverty as an indispensable element in civil communities, the economy of the age has lowered its tone by graduated descents, in each one successively of the four last _decennia_. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
No wonder old Jocelyn had called her "wilding" -- she was indeed a "wilding" or weed, -- growing up unwanted in the garden of the world, destined to be pulled out of the soil where she had nourished and thrown contemptuously aside. Innocent : her fancy and his fact
When I said that few people make real choices about their lives she sneered contemptuously at me.
The brother of Miss Grandison, Sir, is not ac-customed to treat any man contemptuously. Sir Charles Grandison
As the government has assumed power over monetary policy in contemptuous disregard of the expressed wishes of the savers (to say nothing of the provisions of the Constitution), it aggrandizes power.
No longer can that notion be dismissed with a contemptuous pah.
Some while later he contemptuously clomb the knoll anew and preached in a voice filled with fulmination: "God consists of three potatoes and seven turnips which have been combined in an ingenious manner. Archive 2009-08-01
Few then or now would be as openly contemptuous of the life of the mind as Grant. Times, Sunday Times
We should be contemptuous of their presumption; we should despise their new wealth.
The Island newspaper in particularly is openly contemptuous of the ‘political maggots’ that inhabit parliament and has repeatedly appealed for someone of incorruptible morals to save the nation.
It is hard to imagine a more contemptuous attitude towards patient demand. Times, Sunday Times
She explains how different mixes of cooperation and resistance were used and how people were often outwardly supportive but inwardly contemptuous. Times, Sunday Times
Pooh!" ejaculated "Old Jock" contemptuously -- "I've no fear of being troubled by them again. Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea
Successful engineering students tended to be contemptuous of the work habits of lesser mortals.
What I find contemptuous is the naked ambition of most of the contestants.
It is hard to imagine a more contemptuous attitude towards patient demand. Times, Sunday Times
They were blown away with contemptuous ease in the first few minutes in the south of France yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
But at the date of the "Cross Readings" he was mainly what Burke, speaking contemptuously of his status as a plenipotentiary, styled a "_diseur de bons mots_"; and he was for this reason included among those "most distinguished Wits of the Metropolis," who, following Garrick's lead in 1774, diverted themselves at the St. James's Coffee-house by composing the epitaphs on Goldsmith which gave rise to the incomparable gallery entitled _Retaliation_. De Libris: Prose and Verse
But despite his often contemptuousness, he had a love of his students. Whoopi Goldberg to Sister Act to Pedophile Priest to Mother Theresa
As an athlete, she is almost contemptuous of fear. Times, Sunday Times
I've had passing acquaintance recently with the greed and contemptuous indifference of some London landlords. Times, Sunday Times
After the expulsion of the master, the Twentieth School fell upon evil days, for the trustees decided that it would be better to try "gurl" teachers, as Hughie contemptuously called them; and this policy prevailed for two or three years, with the result that the big boys left the school, and with their departure the old heroic age passed away, to be succeeded by an age soft, law-abiding, and distinctly commercial. Glengarry School Days: a story of early days in Glengarry
And now units of this vagrom and unstable street throng, which was forever shifting and changing about them, seemed to sense the psychologic error of all this in so far as these children were concerned, for they would nudge one another, the more sophisticated and indifferent lifting an eyebrow and smiling contemptuously, the more sympathetic or experienced commenting on the useless presence of these children. An American Tragedy
Most of the men seem to be intimidated by her, or at least, contemptuous of her because she's disingenuous.
Darrow, on the other hand, was at times condescending and contemptuous in his treatment of witnesses, jurists, opposing lawyers and even the judge.
They were somewhat contemptuous of the small-bore, mayoral approach of the Clinton administration in his second term.
There has been no peerage, no official role for the man who singlehandedly pulled the rug from under a contemptuous Brussels elite. The Sun
They are also vaguely contemptuous of his beady-eyed negotiations regarding fees and wardrobe allowances.
Ministers seem almost contemptuous of public alarm at the changing face of Britain. The Sun
The disgrace of his first marriage might, perhaps, as there was no reason to suppose it perpetuated by offspring, have been got over, had he not done worse; but he had, as by the accustomary intervention of kind friends, they had been informed, spoken most disrespectfully of them all, most slightingly and contemptuously of the very blood he belonged to, and the honours which were hereafter to be his own. Persuasion
In a voice full of told-you-so contemptuousness, she says,“Bill said you might react this way.” Loved, Stupid
She was almost contemptuous, certainly disrespectful to him who'd grown accustomed to respect. A Plague of Angels
They tried to contact him by telephone and loud-hailer, but he responded with contemptuous silence. Times, Sunday Times
He evaluates the host culture from his own perspective and approaches it with a condescending or even contemptuous attitude.
The coldest-blooded amongst us, Mr. Massingham of _The Nation_ for example, must confess that it was a moment rich in the emotion which bestows immortality on incident when this son of a village schoolmaster, who grew up in a shoemaker's shop, and whose boyish games were played in the street of a Welsh hamlet remote from all the refinements of civilization and all the clangours of industrialism, announced to a breathless Europe without any pomposity of phrase and with but a brief and contemptuous gesture of dismissal the passing away from the world's stage of the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns -- those ancient, long glorious, and most puissant houses whose history for an æon was the history of The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster
This apolitical predisposition to mock precisely the kinds of people who'll actually pay to watch this kind of film is the height of contemptuousness.
If a common man were to dare to be as moody, as contemptuous, and as misanthropical, the world would laugh at him.
In face, watchful behind a blind; habitually not uncensorious and contemptuous perhaps. Bleak House
Milik "— Eve emphasized the alien name contemptuously —" none of this would have happened! Perseus Spur
The critic snorted contemptuously
Broughton, contemptuously dismisses a claimant for the heroship of one of her stories, as the kind of man who turns up his trousers at the foot. My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke
Until recently, Dole was openly contemptuous of the supply side economics espoused by Kemp and other conservatives.
They should be made to pay for their contemptuous and arrogant behaviour.
In that respect, David is being a typical postmodern Republican: shameless, Bismarckian, and contemptuous of communitarians. Nigel Hamilton: David Brooks: Soft in the Head
In fact, far from the love of esteem being grounds for disesteem, a total disregard of others’ opinions seems to reveal in a person a certain contemptuousness of others, a characteristic that is itself disestimable.
What could have been a bland disease-of-the-week series gets a shot of adrenaline whenever Dr Gregory House, a bad-tempered, contemptuous diagnostician, is made to exercise his bedside manner.
I've had passing acquaintance recently with the greed and contemptuous indifference of some London landlords. Times, Sunday Times
At last he felt it was hardly right for an Oxford man, and a triple blue at that, to be discussed in this contemptuous way by a larrikin and his "donah," so he broke into the discussion, perhaps a little abruptly, but using his most polished style. Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life
'Condescend, sir! but I will not condescend to be so conversed with.' Montoni smiled contemptuously.
By that time, says Mr Brennan, he is contemptuous of the criminal justice system and unafraid of the sanctions it imposes.
First, women should try to present their complaints in a calm way: Research shows that men are more likely to listen if their partners tone down hostility and avoid contemptuousness.
He was very contemptuous of 'popular' writers, whom he described as having no talent.
In this instance, the irony is only comprehensible when it is perceived as a contemptuous echoic interpretation of our God's words.
What arouses his fanaticism and prompts his excesses is the contemptuous indifference with which his advances are met. The Times Literary Supplement
Steve looked at them with contemptuous pity, these men that lived narrow, slavish lives in cooped-up places, men caught in ruts, graves with both ends kicked out…
They were dominating, highhanded and contemptuous of everyone who did not agree with them. Times, Sunday Times
He was little more than contemptuous of those who questioned the necessity of war.
He was very contemptuous of 'popular' writers, whom he described as having no talent.
But because they have lived through colonial and totalitarian regimes, they are untrusting and contemptuous of those impressive-sounding grand narratives.
What arouses his fanaticism and prompts his excesses is the contemptuous indifference with which his advances are met. The Times Literary Supplement
I'd like to think he even used my name contemptuously, ''Vecsey!'' NYT > Home Page
Billy laughed in contemptuous pride of youth and brawn. CHAPTER XIII
It had not come as they expected it would come, nor as the intelligentzia desired it; but it had comerough, strong, impatient of formulas, contemptuous of sentimentalism; real. Chapter 5. Plunging Ahead
He rose to scrutinize her closely, and must have been satisfied, for the price he offered was a good one, and he offered it with contemptuous assurance that he would not be outbidden. The Sea-Hawk
She gave a contemptuous little laugh.
Remove Goblin casualties with a deliberately contemptuous gesture or casual lack of concern if it makes you feel better.
One of the real contributions of Relational Life Therapy is the focus on what is technically called "grandiosity" or what is known in the vernacular as pride or ego, which is a state of contemptuousness, feeling better-than, superior or above the rules. Terry Real: Obama vs. Rev. Wright: The Wrongness of Righteousness
He was openly contemptuous of his elder brother.
What makes you think that its view of hunters/outdoorsman is any different from the contemptuous view that most liberals share? On Hunting and Democracy
Thereâ€ ™ s never an excuse for bigotry and namecalling, and certainly those who would use the term towelhead are doing so in an attempt to be insulting, mean-spirited, and contemptuous. FlickFilosopher.com
And why had he been so angry and contemptuous, so scathing about her broken engagement?
She looked at him and tried to make her expression contemptuous, but he only laughed. Flappers and Philosophers
The most brazen sophistry could not dignify by the name of "loan" the coin contemptuously flung to a beachcomber who slept on the bare boards of the public market. Cabbages and Kings
Gabrielle ground her teeth contemptuously, restraining herself from yelling back.
Remove Goblin casualties with a deliberately contemptuous gesture or casual lack of concern if it makes you feel better.
Does not my word suffice? "contemptuously retorted the duke. Under the Rose
Reading early Zionists such as Nordau, Borochov and Gordon provides us with some very contemptuous references to Jewish character and identity that would make Nazi ideology look mildly liberal. Palestine Blogs aggregator
I would growl contemptuously at my reflection in the bathroom mirror each morning.
She was almost contemptuous, certainly disrespectful to him who'd grown accustomed to respect. A Plague of Angels
To the orthodox zoologist, phytologist and geologist, such a suggestion savoured of madness; they either took refuge in a contemptuous silence, or condescended only to reply: Had one visited the Garden of Eden during Creation, one would have found that, in the morning, man was not, while in the evening he was! — morning and evening bearing their newly established significance of geological epochs. Australia Felix
Has any country ever had a more arrogant, insolent, contemptuous leader than we have?
Many a young partridge who strutted complacently among the stubble, with all the finicking coxcombry of youth, and many an older one who watched his levity out of his little round eye, with the contemptuous air of a bird of wisdom and experience, alike unconscious of their approaching doom, basked in the fresh morning air with lively and blithesome feelings, and a few hours afterwards were laid low upon the earth. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Words sometimes mean more than what they appear to say on the surface," he writes, going on to interpret the words as contemptuous because they had an "inherent tendency" to "scandalise the court. Singapore Strikes Again
He's openly contemptuous of all the major political parties.
Yet that's just why, tested against everyday life as most people experience it, the bulk of all this intellectual hectoring is inhumane rubbish — contemptuous of desires that aren't necessarily as unworthy or manipulated as charged. Material Girl
He liked jazz, preferred informal dress, didn't much care for hunting and shooting, and was openly contemptuous of red carpets.
Then the scene shifted to Ethiopia, where Mussolini, I think in contemptuous defiance of the entire world drove with his bayonet and guns the King of Kings, who went begging for his throne to all places. India's Fight For Freedom
Definitions of "Jack" include: boots; a diminutive of John used contemptuously to mean a saucy fellow; a footboy who pulls off his master's boots; a scream; a male; American slang for a stranger; American slang for a jackass; a cunning fellow who can do anything - such as a "Jack of all trades. Portrait of a Killer
Until recently, Dole was openly contemptuous of the supply side economics espoused by Kemp and other conservatives.
Both involve ancient recurring human drama, and after a whole it becomes simply wilful to feign contemptuous ignorance of something filling two pages of our daily papers, like those judges who would interject, pompously: "What is a Teletubbie/Xbox/iPod? Yes, it's fine to admit you don't watch TV | Euan Ferguson
Was there not even now a curious malicious gleam in her dark eye, a frown upon her forehead, a kind of puckered and contemptuous smile upon her lips? Ringfield A Novel
Their contemptuousness colors the debate anyway, especially in the press.
Saddletree, somewhat contemptuously; ` ` there's no a callant that e'er carried a pock wi 'a process in't, but will tell you that perduellion is the warst and maist virulent kind of treason, being an open convocating of the king's lieges against his authority (mair especially in arms, and by touk of drum, to baith whilk accessories my een and lugs bore witness), and muckle worse than lese-majesty, or the concealment of a treasonable purpose --- It winna bear a dispute, neighbour.' ' The Heart of Mid-Lothian
He was contemptuous of me for reminding him about reading the instructions - he didn't see the relevance.
He felt people were contemptuous of his lack of sophistication.
she spoke of him contemptuously
It is impossible to imagine the uproar that such peremptory and contemptuous words from him would provoke.
I knew now why her face was familiar — its pleasing contemptuous expression had looked out at me from many rotogravure pictures of the sporting life at Asheville and Hot Springs and Palm The Great Gatsby
Most of the men seem to be intimidated by her, or at least, contemptuous of her because she's disingenuous.
She's contemptuous of my humble background.
The farmer rears up contemptuously and roars, ‘You ever been hit in the head with a ‘soft rock’, boy?’
Betty is at the center of the film's assembly of cynical, contemptuous characterizations.
[Sidenote: Strife betwixt the prelates for preheminence.] and his chapleine (whom he appointed [15] to beare his crosse before him at his entrance into the kings chappell) was contemptuouslie and violentlie thrust out of the doores with crosse and all by the fréends of the archbishop of Canturburie. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I.
A contemptuous demolition of their continental colleagues over the course of 18 qualifying matches included 13 wins and a solitary defeat, by Brazil.
Protestantism sat at ease, unmindful of schisms, careless of proselytism: Dissent was an inheritance along with a superior pew and a business connection; and Churchmanship only wondered contemptuously at Dissent as a foolish habit that clung greatly to families in the grocery and chandlering lines, though not incompatible with prosperous wholesale dealing. XII. Mr. and Mrs. Glegg at Home. Book I—Boy and Girl
As an athlete, she is almost contemptuous of fear. Times, Sunday Times
As I crossed the interminable length of floor that separated me from the door I could feel that contemptuous smile rowelling my shrinking vertebræ. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-04
He looks disdainful and contemptuous and furious with his guests because he by and large is. Times, Sunday Times
Even when you're contemptuous of such behavior, it is a fact of life.
All around her men and elves fell in bloody heaps, Krast spitting contemptuously on their broken bodies.
‘Get your filthy hands off of me,’ she spits at Tristan contemptuously.
He's openly contemptuous of all the major political parties.
No doubt it is a sad thing for a man to part with his self-control, but I happen to hold a brief for the crackbrain, and I say that there is not any man living who can afford to be too contemptuous, for no one knows when his turn may come to make a disastrous slip. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour
He stopped showing at the Royal Academy when his paintings were contemptuously "skied" (hung high on the wall). June 2008
Whatever may be the precise force of the remark in brackets, it is unquestionably true that mysticism is often used in a semi-contemptuous way to denote vaguely any kind of occultism or spiritualism, or any specially curious or fantastic views about God and the universe. Mysticism in English Literature
The kids themselves flout this rule with contemptuous ease, but if a teacher catches them, they might well be in for it.
For example when they recently raised commissions considerably and lowered lotting fees slightly, the way they portrayed what they were doing was contemptuous of the intelligence of sellers, hyping the reduction and calling the steep commission increase on the first $25 of a sale an “adjustment”. EBay Tries to Buy a Little More Love From Sellers - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
I envy those stolid people who can talk so contemptuously of frailty -- I mean I envy them their self-mastery; I quite understand the temperament of those who can be content with a slight exhilaration, and who fiercely contemn the crackbrain who does not know when to stop. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour
I now realise that, every day, a cowed and intimidated Guardian publishes story after story in support of Israel, focusing relentlessly upon the beleaguerment of its citizens under the onslaught from Hamas while never carrying anything in favour of the Palestinians, presenting the Middle East entirely through a pro-Israel prism and never even reporting the Palestinian point of view except for a few contemptuous references suggesting that they are always lying. Everything is now illuminated
They stared on the next occasion of meeting, when Bloundell spoke in contemptuous terms of old Pen; said everybody knew old Pen, regular old trencherman at Gaunt The History of Pendennis
The authors of such works are regarded as deviant, hostile to "ordinary" readers, just plain contemptuous of good order in matters of storytelling and style. Style in Fiction
Many a young partridge who strutted complacently among the stubble, with all the finicking coxcombry of youth, and many an older one who watched his levity out of his little round eye, with the contemptuous air of a bird of wisdom and experience, alike unconscious of their approaching doom, basked in the fresh morning air with lively and blithesome feelings, and a few hours afterwards were laid low upon the earth. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
He had refused definitely to enter the atelier of the gentleman who pleased his clients by ingeniously simulating the grain of walnut; and though he had seen the old oaken ambry kicked out contemptuously into the farmyard, serving perhaps the necessities of hens or pigs, he would not apprentice himself to the masters of veneer. The Hill of Dreams
This arcane coffee drink was once the stuff of mystery, to be found only in chichi Italian restaurants, formulated by cagey old waiters wrestling with giant copper kettles that hissed like contemptuous dragons.
She was almost contemptuous, certainly disrespectful to him who'd grown accustomed to respect. A Plague of Angels
Her voice sounded almost contemptuous.
She remembered her contemptuous silence before Stillman's obvious suavities, the high, assured laugh which his companion, Mrs. Condor, threw out to meet his quiet sallies, the ruffling satisfaction of her mother, chattering on irrelevantly, but with the undisguised purpose of creating The Blood Red Dawn
Roundhead, have you come up with these no-genital "liberals", or are you just spouting idiocies and meaningless generalizations while you make empty contemptuous comments? Balkinization
She explains how different mixes of cooperation and resistance were used and how people were often outwardly supportive but inwardly contemptuous. Times, Sunday Times
With the blood welling from a shothole in his broad, burly chest and the seal of death already settling on his ashen brow, he was scowling up into the half-compassionate, half-contemptuous faces about him. Ray's Daughter A Story of Manila
They resented the invasion of their town and spoke contemptuously of the culture vultures who winged in from London, jumping the taxi queues and packing out restaurants.
He lacks the cold, contemptuous arrogance that would make Elizabeth - and us - hate him.
Though I wouldn't have been able to express it at the time, this story of the shy, ungraceful daughter tyrannized by a contemptuous father struck home, struck a chord in my home.
This is the term contemptuously applied in India to the paying of calls and other social duties that imply dancing attendance on the fair sex. The Jungle Girl
His reaction is to confront John, who encouraged this evangelistic initiative, with the racist and contemptuousness of its approach.
This has more to do with Pandora's "gifts" of intolerance, racism, sexism, antipathy and contemptuousness. Bil Browning: Pandora's Box: The National Equality March
Churchmanship only wondered contemptuously at Dissent as a foolish habit that clung greatly to families in the grocery and chandlering lines, though not incompatible with prosperous wholesale dealing. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy
After holding the jarldom for a long term, Torf-Einar died in his bed, as the Saga contemptuously tells us, probably in or after the year Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns
They were openly contemptuous of my suggestions.
Bob Ewell spat contemptuously right in the lawyer's face.
Savagery and barbarism were contemptuous expressions used by ‘civilised’ people.
He was contemptuous and sneering in pointing out that we were in the wrong carriage.
The most brazen sophistry could not dignify by the name of "loan" the coin contemptuously flung to a beach-comber who slept on the bare boards of the public market. Cabbages and Kings
He evaluates the host culture from his own perspective and approaches it with a condescending or even contemptuous attitude.
The holier than thou always brings out the crude," he threw it at her contemptuously. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
To brand it as arbitrary is a haughty act of intellectual hubris, thin in substance and contemptuous of our ancestors.
He's openly contemptuous of all the major political parties.
Far too many hackers and cyberpunks weren’t programmers at all—they were referred to contemptuously as “point-and-clickers.” The Blue Nowhere
A counter-proposal by Pakistan for an international force to be sent to Kashmir was then rejected contemptuously by India.
But then, curiously, he did not snarl contemptuously that they were wrong and that he had a sackful of lawyers to say so.
Kirghiz — they would watch while I bent horseshoes, twisted iron bars over my knees and performed what my father used to call contemptuously my circus tricks. Dwellers in the Mirage
Arrino was a man who did as he pleased, who answered to no one - not even me - so how had he ended up enchained by the laws of social convention that he had always been contemptuous of?
I am what is contemptuously called a cit, yet I was treated with unfailing courtesy wherever I went. A Christmas Bride
The man received the papers, while the crowd looked on, muttering in contemptuous undertones. Jacqueline of the Carrier-Pigeons
It may occur to some hypercritical person to suggest that the English language has frequently been murdered in my den, and that it is its horrid corse which is playing havoc at my home, crying out to heaven and flaunting its bloody wounds in the face of my conscience, but I can pass such an aspersion as that by with contemptuous silence, for even if it were true it could not be set down as wilful assassination on my part, since no sane person who needs a language as much as I do would ever in cold blood kill any one of the many that lie about us. Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others
Many a young partridge who strutted complacently among the stubble, with all the finicking coxcombry of youth, and many an older one who watched his levity out of his little round eye, with the contemptuous air of a bird of wisdom and experience, alike unconscious of their approaching doom, basked in the fresh morning air with lively and blithesome feelings, and a few hours afterwards were laid low upon the earth. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
It may beggar the agrestical among us; but, at the risk of sounding elitist, RN rescues himself from utter contemptuous caliginosity when he discusses the pair of genius recipients of the prestigious Macarthur Fellowships. The Ampersand's Daily Dose of High- & Low-Downs
Ministers seem almost contemptuous of public alarm at the changing face of Britain. The Sun
The knight, provoked at this stately declaration, which was the immediate effect of anger and ebriety, eyed his antagonist with a most contemptuous aspect, and advised him to avoid such comparisons for the future. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
The term Gothic was applied contemptuously to this architectural style by writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, who regarded everything non-classical as barbarous. Early European History
Hirst was once one of a new generation that contemptuously dethroned the old with the pzazz of bad behaviour, and art that was little more than a succession of stunts and gimmicks. Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
If they were the only heavyweights left in a tournament stripped of its big names, the current US Open champion floored his opponent with contemptuous ease.
Proud men demeaned themselves and their families to accept official charity from a contemptuous officialdom.
There was the abiding desire that they shouldn't play beneath themselves, be dishonourable or contemptuous of others.
I had announced on entering old Ebbits's cabin; and he had looked at me blear-eyed and vacuous, while Zilla had favored me with a sour face and a contemptuous grunt. THE WHITE MAN'S WAY
Ministers seem almost contemptuous of public alarm at the changing face of Britain. The Sun
His attitude, moreover, has bordered on the contemptuous; and the blogosphere has chewed him up and spat him out.
(London received $530 for this story on August 14, 1905.) "TO cook by your fire and to sleep under your roof for the night," I had announced on entering old Ebbits's cabin; and he had looked at me blear-eyed and vacuous, while Zilla had favored me with a sour face and a contemptuous grunt. The White Man's Way
Forsooth, these Darlings are nothing more, to their contemptuous certainty, than the offset of some court favorite, too low to have won nobility, in the reign of some light-affectioned king. Springhaven
My expensive anastigmatic and my several diffused lenses standard tools for the Pictorialist photographer seem destined to contemptuous neglect, though it may be that I shall dust them off for an occasional portrait head. Archive 2008-10-01
It is frequently instilled at a delicate age, as a result of the internalization of a contemptuous voice, usually parental.
In each the larger animal keeps a contemptuous good humour; in each the smaller annoys him with wasp-like impudence, certain of practical immunity; in each we shall find a double life producing double characters, and an excursive and noisy heroism combined with a fair amount of practical timidity. Memories and Portraits
It's the world of an apparently mad rock star who's bored with it all and so contemptuous of the hangers-on that surround him, he speaks only to himself.
The keeper made no remark, but in contemptuous silence he rattled the dog's chain and the animal barked loudly. The Mother
As Lizzie was an ardent Democrat, she spoke the name contemptuously -- for Dick Kelly was the Republican boss. The Conflict
In other words, I think that rural people are pragmatic and contemptuous of the left's seeming obsession with expensive esoterica.
His bitter frown transformed itself into a sneer and then a contemptuous smile.
While we rode we were disbodied, unconscious of flesh or feeling: and when at an interval this excitement faded and we did see our bodies, it was with some hostility, with a contemptuous sense that they reached their highest purpose, not as vehicles of the spirit, but when, dissolved, their elements served to manure a field. Seven Pillars of Wisdom
You turn ma boo against me, with your contemptuous lies.
They harangued him for his fall, sneered and jeered at him, rooted him about contemptuously with their feet, made a hollow in the sand out of which he could not roll and desposited him in it on his back, his four tied legs sticking ignominiously in the air above him. CHAPTER XVI
He strode on rapidly, his shoulders squared, his expression contemptuous, challenging; but within he was possessed by an apprehension increasing at every step. The Three Black Pennys A Novel
They were blown away with contemptuous ease in the first few minutes in the south of France yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
Benedict threw her a contemptuous glance.
It is only five years since, in his 1963 New Year message, Dr Verwoerd referred contemptuously to the 'ducktail' nations of Africa who dared to criticize apartheid and, while unable to maintain stability in their own countries, worked for the downfall of the only stable power in Africa. The Rise of the South African Reich - Chapter 15
In arguments they are emotionally very aggressive - belligerent, contemptuous, insulting.
Ben Yagoda, author of Memoir: A History, is contemptuous of memoir for its lack of what he calls accountability; he insists on interchanging "memoir" with "autobiography" as a way to support his conclusion: "The past four decades will probably be remembered as the golden age of autobiographical fraud. Jennifer Lauck: The Memoir Dilemma: What's With All These Memoirs?
Like most of the first smart, sardonic novel, the story appears to have been thrown out with contemptuous ease.
Some one think: Will not be. Every kind of allowable occupation is equality and noble-minded which it's most honor to learn money by our sweat, Nothing to mind and never be self-contemptuous.
It is contemptuous in the extreme, and such comments make it almost impossible to respond in a civilised fashion.
This sort of uncomprehending fellow usually received a special contemptuous look which meant that the request would be filed without further action.
“Let the white-livered cowards have their way,” the old sailor said, contemptuously. Mary Anerley
Such a massive increase to those lawyers who have already enjoyed a bonanza from the Tribunal is a contemptuous slap in the face to the ordinary worker.
He was familiar with the punctilio of duelling, the code of regulations for fencing, the rules of athletic sports, and the intricacies of the gaming-table; but anything which he dubbed contemptuously "book-learning," he considered as far beneath him as it really was above. Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada
He looks disdainful and contemptuous and furious with his guests because he by and large is. Times, Sunday Times
Has any country ever had a more arrogant, insolent, contemptuous leader than we have?

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