contemptuous

[Con*temp·tu*ous]

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.

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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

Con*temp"tu*ous , a. Manifecting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful.
A proud, contemptious behavior.
Savage invectiveand contemptuous sarcasm.
Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of the Jews.
Syn. -- Scornful; insolent; haughty; disdainful; supercilious; insulting; contumelious. -- Contemptuous, Contemptible. These words, from their similarity of sound, are sometimes erroneously interchanged, as when a person speaks of having "a very contemptible opinion of another." Contemptible is applied to that which is the object of contempt; as, contemptible conduct; acontemptible fellow. Contemptuous is applied to that which indicates contempts; as, a contemptuous look; a contemptuous remark; contemptuous treatment. A person, or whatever is personal, as an action, an expression, a feeling, an opinion, may be either contemptuous or contemptible; a thing may be contemptible, but can not be contemptuous.

Manifecting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful.

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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 Examples

Many 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.

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