Definition of contemptuous

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

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Flunky :: Flunky (n.) A contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman.
Lamentable :: Lamentable (a.) Miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or ridiculous sense.
Despisingly :: Despisingly (adv.) Contemptuously.
Costard :: Costard (n.) The head; -- used contemptuously.
Insolent :: Insolent (a.) Haughty and contemptuous or brutal in behavior or language; overbearing; domineering; grossly rude or disrespectful; saucy; as, an insolent master; an insolent servant..
Gibe :: Gibe (v. i.) To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to scoff at; to mock.
Spurn :: Spurn (n.) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous tratment.
Insolence :: Insolence (n.) The quality of being insolent; pride or haughtiness manifested in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others; arrogant contempt; brutal impudence.
Jacquerie :: "Jacquerie (n.) The name given to a revolt of French peasants against the nobles in 1358, the leader assuming the contemptuous title, Jacques Bonhomme, given by the nobles to the peasantry. Hence, any revolt of peasants..
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..
Missy :: Missy (n.) An affectionate, or contemptuous, form of miss; a young girl; a miss..
Ridicule :: Ridicule (n.) Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an object of laughter; banter; -- a term lighter than derision.
Cockney :: Cockney (n.) A native or resident of the city of London; -- used contemptuously.
Contemptuous :: Contemptuous (a.) Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful.
Clan :: Clan (n.) A clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit; -- sometimes used contemptuously..
Scornful :: Scornful (a.) Full of scorn or contempt; contemptuous; disdainful.
Sport :: Sport (n.) Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.
Putty-faced :: Putty-faced (a.) White-faced; -- used contemptuously.
Fling :: Fling (n.) A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm.
Belittle :: Belittle (v. t.) To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.
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