Definition of contemptuous

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

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Contumely :: Contumely (n.) Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace.
Frump :: Frump (n.) A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a gibe or flout.
Despite :: Despite (n.) Malice; malignity; spite; malicious anger; contemptuous hate.
Outfling :: Outfling (n.) A gibe; a contemptuous remark.
Bullirag :: Bullirag (n.) To intimidate by bullying; to rally contemptuously; to badger.
Violation :: Violation (n.) An act of irreverence or desecration; profanation or contemptuous treatment of sacred things; as, the violation of a church..
Medley :: Medley (n.) A mixture; a mingled and confused mass of ingredients, usually inharmonious; a jumble; a hodgepodge; -- often used contemptuously..
Derision :: Derision (n.) The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule..
Contempt :: Contempt (n.) Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the respect due to its authority..
Mockingly :: Mockingly (adv.) By way of derision; in a contemptuous or mocking manner.
Hooker :: Hooker (n.) A sailor's contemptuous term for any antiquated craft.
Reproach :: Reproach (v. t.) To attribute blame to; to allege something disgraceful against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously; to upbraid.
Flirt :: Flirt (v. i.) To utter contemptuous language, with an air of disdain; to jeer or gibe..
Haughty :: Haughty (superl.) Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing.
Sir :: Sir (n.) An English rendering of the LAtin Dominus, the academical title of a bachelor of arts; -- formerly colloquially, and sometimes contemptuously, applied to the clergy..
Disdain :: Disdain (v. i.) To be filled with scorn; to feel contemptuous anger; to be haughty.
Redshank :: Redshank (n.) A bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs..
Revile :: Revile (v. t. & i.) To address or abuse with opprobrious and contemptuous language; to reproach.
Disdainful :: Disdainful (a.) Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty.
Snag :: Snag (n.) A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth..
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