Example sentences for: contemptuous

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

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

  • Damaging Armey further is his contemptuous relationship with the press.

  • 2. Greeting; form of address, semi-humorously or strongly contemptuous: What alibi now, Fxxxface?

  • "Australia bows to Her Majesty" was the Sydney Morning Herald 's contemptuous headline Monday.

  • A front-page LAT story reports that military authorities, concerned by a recent spate of public Lewinsky-driven criticisms of President Clinton by military personnel--in service-oriented publications and in the WSJ and on the Internet--are threatening service members with punishment if they utter "contemptuous words" about their Commander-in-Chief.


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