contemptuously

[ kuhn-temp-choo-uhs-lee ]

adverb

1. in a way that expresses contempt or disdain; scornfully:

   He remained angrily and contemptuously silent and refused to answer.

Other Words From

• half-con·temp·tu·ous·ly adverb
• non·con·temp·tu·ous·ly adverb
• un·con·temp·tu·ous·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of contemptuously¹

contemptuous ( def ) + -ly

Example Sentences

By all accounts, he could be contemptuous of bores and dullards.

From Washington Post

You can certainly feel contemptuous toward people you don’t know.

From Freakonomics

It seems a real paradox that we become contemptuous of the people who we have the most familiarity with, which would tend to be family, friends, people we work with.

From Freakonomics

In truth, the art of tobacco using is nowhere more ignored, nowhere more contemptuously neglected than in these 'favored isles.'

From Project Gutenberg

The labour of the spade and of the loom, and the petty gains of trade, he contemptuously abandoned to men of a lower caste.

From Project Gutenberg

Ask him to play on that string; Ill wager hell refuse, said the old man, contemptuously.

From Project Gutenberg

Not very probable,” said Sarah, contemptuously, “though I make no doubt the rebels got behind the logs.

From Project Gutenberg

We were contemptuously termed ‘pograms,’ a term of reproach the origin of which I have never learnt.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• bluntly
• crudely
• harshly