Definition of contemptuous

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

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Peat :: Peat (n.) A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously.
Consistorian :: Consistorian (a.) Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy.
Kit :: Kit (m.) A group of separate parts, things, or individuals; -- used with whole, and generally contemptuously; as, the whole kit of them..
Disdainful :: Disdainful (a.) Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty.
Fig :: Fig (n.) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. See Fico..
Despite :: Despite (n.) Malice; malignity; spite; malicious anger; contemptuous hate.
Contemptuousness :: Contemptuousness (n.) Disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness.
Despisingly :: Despisingly (adv.) Contemptuously.
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..
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..
Spurn :: Spurn (n.) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous tratment.
Sport :: Sport (n.) Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.
Countercaster :: Countercaster (n.) A caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper; -- used contemptuously.
Costard :: Costard (n.) The head; -- used contemptuously.
Despite :: Despite (n.) An act of malice, hatred, or defiance; contemptuous defiance; a deed of contempt..
Mock :: Mock (n.) An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer.
Lamentable :: Lamentable (a.) Miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or ridiculous sense.
Despiteful :: Despiteful (a.) Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate; malicious.
Medley :: Medley (n.) A mixture; a mingled and confused mass of ingredients, usually inharmonious; a jumble; a hodgepodge; -- often used contemptuously..
Bullirag :: Bullirag (n.) To intimidate by bullying; to rally contemptuously; to badger.
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