Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully.
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- adverb In a
disrespectful ordiscourteous manner;condescendingly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb without respect; in a disdainful manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is the term contemptuously applied in India to the paying of calls and other social duties that imply dancing attendance on the fair sex.
The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly
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He was familiar with the punctilio of duelling, the code of regulations for fencing, the rules of athletic sports, and the intricacies of the gaming-table; but anything which he dubbed contemptuously "book-learning," he considered as far beneath him as it really was above.
Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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I'd like to think he even used my name contemptuously, ''Vecsey!''
NYT > Home Page By DAVID VECSEY 2011
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As Lizzie was an ardent Democrat, she spoke the name contemptuously -- for Dick Kelly was the Republican boss.
The Conflict 1911
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The most brazen sophistry could not dignify by the name of "loan" the coin contemptuously flung to a beach-comber who slept on the bare boards of the public market.
Cabbages and Kings 1904
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As Lizzie was an ardent Democrat, she spoke the name contemptuously -- for Dick Kelly was the Republican boss.
The Conflict David Graham Phillips 1889
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The most brazen sophistry could not dignify by the name of "loan" the coin contemptuously flung to a beachcomber who slept on the bare boards of the public market.
Cabbages and Kings O. Henry 1886
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Far too many hackers and cyberpunks weren’t programmers at all—they were referred to contemptuously as “point-and-clickers.”
The Blue Nowhere Jeffery Deaver 2001
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Kirghiz — they would watch while I bent horseshoes, twisted iron bars over my knees and performed what my father used to call contemptuously my circus tricks.
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Milik "— Eve emphasized the alien name contemptuously —" none of this would have happened!
Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998
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