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View synonyms for contemptuously
contemptuously
[ kuhn-temp-choo-uhs-lee ]
adverb
- in a way that expresses contempt or disdain; scornfully:
He remained angrily and contemptuously silent and refused to answer.
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Other Words From
- half-con·temp·tu·ous·ly adverb
- non·con·temp·tu·ous·ly adverb
- un·con·temp·tu·ous·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of contemptuously1
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Example Sentences
In truth, the art of tobacco using is nowhere more ignored, nowhere more contemptuously neglected than in these 'favored isles.'
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The labour of the spade and of the loom, and the petty gains of trade, he contemptuously abandoned to men of a lower caste.
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Ask him to play on that string; Ill wager hell refuse, said the old man, contemptuously.
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Not very probable,” said Sarah, contemptuously, “though I make no doubt the rebels got behind the logs.
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We were contemptuously termed ‘pograms,’ a term of reproach the origin of which I have never learnt.
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