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contemptuous |
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contemptuous Adjective showing or feeling strong dislike or disrespect contemptuously adv
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contemptuous adjective scornful, insulting, arrogant, withering, sneering, cavalier, condescending, haughty, disdainful, insolent, derisive, supercilious, high and mighty, on your high horse (informal) << OPPOSITE respectful Translations How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| said the Retraction, with contemptuous vulgarity of speech. (replied my Husband in a most nobly contemptuous Manner) and dost thou then imagine that there is no other support for an exalted mind (such as is my Laura's) than the mean and indelicate employment of Eating and Drinking? His smile impressed me as cynical and a trifle contemptuous. |
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