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Example sentences for: contemptuous

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Refusing to pay an unjustified toll may be contemptuous of Washington, but it's respectful of democracy.
John Paul II is not oblivious to these criticisms, just contemptuous of them.
That is, it's a fake--or, as one contemptuous critic describes it, "a cartoon."
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.
Thirty years ago, when John Kenneth Galbraith published The New Industrial State , he was sure he knew where the modern economy was going and was contemptuous of economists who clung to their old ideas about the primacy of markets.