Definition of contemptuous

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Contemptuous (a.) Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful.

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Belittle :: Belittle (v. t.) To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.
Peat :: Peat (n.) A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously.
Outfling :: Outfling (n.) A gibe; a contemptuous remark.
Hooker :: Hooker (n.) A sailor's contemptuous term for any antiquated craft.
Doughface :: Doughface (n.) A contemptuous nickname for a timid, yielding politician, or one who is easily molded..
Byword :: Byword (n.) The object of a contemptuous saying.
Despisingly :: Despisingly (adv.) Contemptuously.
Spurn :: Spurn (n.) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous tratment.
Pshaw :: Pshaw (v. i.) To express disgust or contemptuous disapprobation, as by the exclamation Pshaw!.
Indignity :: Indignity (n.) Any action toward another which manifests contempt for him; an offense against personal dignity; unmerited contemptuous treatment; contumely; incivility or injury, accompanied with insult..
Disdainful :: Disdainful (a.) Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty.
Insolence :: Insolence (n.) The quality of being insolent; pride or haughtiness manifested in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others; arrogant contempt; brutal impudence.
Mahound :: Mahound (n.) A contemptuous name for Mohammed; hence, an evil spirit; a devil..
Contumely :: Contumely (n.) Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace.
Mock :: Mock (n.) An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer.
Bullirag :: Bullirag (n.) To intimidate by bullying; to rally contemptuously; to badger.
Kit :: Kit (m.) A group of separate parts, things, or individuals; -- used with whole, and generally contemptuously; as, the whole kit of them..
Despise :: Despise (v. t.) To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of.
Contemptuousness :: Contemptuousness (n.) Disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness.
Sport :: Sport (n.) Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.
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