contemptuously

Example Sentences

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But you need not worry: I understand you and I am not contemptuously pandering to you: I genuinely think that you drive to Walmart for the delight of it!

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2023

Over the next hour, a device captured the Democratic politicians and the labor leader, all Latino, speaking contemptuously about those they regarded as rivals or impediments.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2022

Kelly Carlin said her father was “99 percent progressive” and that he raised her in a manner that today might be contemptuously dismissed as woke.

From New York Times • May 11, 2022

I wouldn’t have to contemptuously speculate if that number were in the document, you know.

From The Verge • Jul. 13, 2021

He took it up, rolled it quickly between thumb and forefinger, and then cast it contemptuously back into the tray.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck