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Contemptuously
"Contemptuously" in a Sentence (16 examples)
Instead of slapping him in the face, she spit in it, and walked contemptuously away.
Tom looked at Mary contemptuously.
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
Think what you are doing, Lady Ashton: you are making a mortal enemy of a young man who is likely to have the means of harming us——” “Did you ever know a Douglas who feared an enemy?” answered the lady, contemptuously.
Mary snorted contemptuously.
"Churkistan" is the name Russian nationalists contemptuously call Asian countries or Caucasian republics of the Russian Federation.
The old man snorted contemptuously.
People often don't notice that when they treat someone contemptuously and disrespectfully, they don't just hurt that person, but also cast themselves in a bad light.
He argued with the judge contemptuously, showing no respect or remorse for his actions.
Ralph, who was a thickset clownish figure, arrived at his full strength, and conscious of the most complete personal superiority, laughed contemptuously at the threats of the slight-made stripling.
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'They haven't no more philosophy nor political economy about 'em than that,' said the beadle, snapping his fingers contemptuously.
A eunuch is a negative creature. A beardless Moslem is contemptuously designated as manless.
He snapped his fingers contemptuously at the alarm clock. "I fear thee not, thou ticking tyrant."
Under the statute an individual who "publicly mutilates, tramples upon, defaces or treats contemptuously the flag of the United States[…]" was subject to criminal liability.
The girl looked at Onisi contemptuously, then laughed jeeringly. He was then six years old and didn't know how to speak in English so he couldn't understand what she was saying but he sensed that it was derogatory.
Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump contemptuously brushed aside Schumer’s opposition to both appointments, and didn’t suffer for it politically.
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