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Example sentences for: contemptuous

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He retails various "suspicions," then assures us that they are "contemptuous."
Some contributors to learned journals of his day frequently submitted their suggestions with a hesitation born of the fear of being flayed alive by the scholar in a contemptuous retort to be published in a later issue.
Refusing to pay an unjustified toll may be contemptuous of Washington, but it's respectful of democracy.
While Los Angeles aims an occasional rhetorical jab at the left, Rieff's second book on Miami, The Exile , was an act of defiant apostasy, sympathetic to the Cuban émigrés' sufferings and aspirations, and contemptuous of the Castro regime.
The camera stares, unblinking, at Steven in conversation with uncomprehending or contemptuous superiors.