Example sentences for: contemptuously

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

  • Clark, who contemptuously dismisses the artist's "boulevard pastorals."

  • In his memoir, Ayman al Zawahiri contemptuously rejects the claim that the Arab mujahideen were financed (even "one penny") or trained by the United States.

  • that revels in the irony of a sentimental illustrator, so long contemptuously dismissed by critics, being installed in the American artistic pantheon.

  • ' In the underworld, apparently, it came to be applied, contemptuously, to a whole range of people, mostly young: apprentice hobo, inexpert hoodlum, punk, nance, sneak, informer, and so on.

  • Before ascending to the papacy in 1939, Eugenio Pacelli neutered German Catholic opposition to Nazism, campaigned to remove black troops from the Rhineland, and contemptuously declined to help persecuted Jews.


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