Contemptuous is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONTEMPTUOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• manifesting contempt
• showing contempt; scornful
• Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful.
• expressing extreme contempt
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• manifesting, feeling, or expressing deep hatred or disapproval; feeling or showing contempt

Words related to CONTEMPTUOUS

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Words that contain CONTEMPTUOUS

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How to use CONTEMPTUOUS in a sentence

• Scotland was clamorous and England jealously contemptuous, for nearly a century.
• His frequent observations to his young friend were excellent as instruction, but were conveyed in somewhat contemptuous language.
• She did not praise him for it, true, but there was nothing in her manner suggestive of a hard word or a contemptuous kick.
• What could equal the utter confusion of Master Horner and the contemptuous anger of the father, when no letters were to be found! Mr.
• On his desk was heaped a pile of papers, in which letters, lecture notes, old pamphlets, were scattered in contemptuous disorder.
• Then, as he read it over the second time, a rather contemptuous smile seemed to lurk about the corners of his mouth.
• Our hearts grow sore and sullen As year by year rolls by, And your cold, contemptuous actions Give your fervent words the lie.
• Lenine, who continually kept contemptuous silence, wound up by stretching himself upon his bench and pretending to sleep.
• I was consumed with rage and contemptuous impatience.
• Buxton beat his hand once on the table as he ended, and looked with a contemptuous inquiry at the magistrate.
• Whenever his anger seemed to increase, a scarcely perceptible, contemptuous smile played on the lips of this man, and a flash of hatred, and, withal, of scorn burst from his eyes.
• Field recognized and attempted to halt me, but I answered him with a contemptuous look and rode on.
• His eyes followed Peter about the room with a contemptuous, unfriendly expression.
• This makes most people think that I am contemptuous, but I am not so at all.
• The very tired German stiffened up again, as his drill sergeant had taught him, and both stared straight ahead, proud and contemptuous, as their Kaiser would wish them to do.
• But the contemptuous exterior hid a self-reproving heart, and he felt how far more noble Owen and Montagu were than he.
• That she ultimately took refuge in indifference we can perceive, but it is to be feared that she was not always able to maintain the attitude of contemptuous composure.
• Ignorance, however respectable, and however contemptuous, is certainly no infallible oracle on any subject.
• Occasionally be haughty and contemptuous, and make a parade of rugged and incorruptible honesty.
• The word was presumably contemptuous in its origin.
• Her contemptuous boredom had vanished, and she looked a merry child again.
• He halted, and met them with a dark, contemptuous countenance, and the murmur died in a shuffling of feet in the dry grass.
• On the 22d, John Miles was punished for sleeping on his watch, neglect of duty, and contemptuous behaviour.
• This new form of Buddhism is called Mahayana, or the Great Vehicle, as opposed to the Small Vehicle or Hinayana, a somewhat contemptuous name given to the older school.

Similar words containing NTEMPTUOU without suffix s and without prefix co

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