Contemptuous Definition

Contemptuous Sentence Examples

• She did not sit down but looked at him with a contemptuous smile, waiting for the valet to go.

• One of the audience, with a contemptuous remark, took a handful of pebbles to pelt him with.

• There seems no reason to accept Gibbon's contemptuous estimate of their social position.

• The German aristocracy, as Aeneas Sylvius had noticed, remained for the most part barbarous, addicted to gross pleasures, contemptuous of culture.

• Since these combinations have often been as illogical as facile, "eclecticism" has generally acquired a somewhat contemptuous significance.