If you insult someone or dismiss them in a hateful way, you're being contemptuous. The difference between being hateful and contemptuous is subtle. It involves disdain.
Manifecting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful.
Adjective S.
expressing extreme contempt
a.
Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain;
scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful.
Contemptuous
A proud, contemptious behavior.
Savage invectiveand contemptuous sarcasm.
Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of the Jews.
Manifecting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful.
Usage Examples
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
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Other Usage ExamplesMany men are contemptuous of riches few can give them away.
Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.