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Another word for contemptuous

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contemptuous

modif.

disdainful, derisive, disrespectful; see scornful 1.

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Another word for contemptuous

adjective

Showing scorn and disrespect toward (someone or something):

disdainful, scornful. Idiom: on one's high horse. See respect

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She did not sit down but looked at him with a contemptuous smile, waiting for the valet to go.
One of the audience, with a contemptuous remark, took a handful of pebbles to pelt him with.
In contemptuous condemnation he was called the friend of the outcasts (Matt.
There seems no reason to accept Gibbon's contemptuous estimate of their social position.
The German aristocracy, as Aeneas Sylvius had noticed, remained for the most part barbarous, addicted to gross pleasures, contemptuous of culture.

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