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contemptuously

/kuhn-temp-choo-uhs-lee/US // kənˈtɛmp tʃu əs li //

轻蔑地,轻蔑地认为,蔑视性地,轻视地

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a way that expresses contempt or disdain; scornfully: He remained angrily and contemptuously silent and refused to answer.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inrudely

Examples

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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