Example sentences for: contemptuous

How can you use “contemptuous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I therefore do not comprehend why Mr. Bork now thinks it matters that Microsoft has more money than Netscape when he was so specifically contemptuous of that argument 20 years ago.

  • John Paul II is not oblivious to these criticisms, just contemptuous of them.

  • Daniel Patrick Moynihan casts a contemptuous eye on President Clinton: The New York Democrat has stood by the president out of party loyalty and disdain for the impeachment process, but Moynihan calls Clinton's character bankrupt and his policy choices morally and intellectually cheap.

  • Is it the right-wing commissar Norquist, who defied subpoenas from the Thompson Committee about his role laundering campaign contributions for the Republican National Committee (he is contemptuous of the law)?

  • The showing of the Clinton videotapes on television was roundly condemned across Europe this week, where the press was as lavish in its praise of the American people as it was contemptuous of their leaders.


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