contemptuously

Example Sentences

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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

Really Frustrated: If I read this correctly, only you and your sister know your mom’s seemingly innocent Andrew questions repeatedly, ritually — and contemptuously — defy explicit requests for her not to do that.

From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 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

“Chances are, one of us is a spy anyway,” the young man says contemptuously.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García