~ (of sb/sth) feeling or showing that you have no respect for sb/sth:
She gave him a contemptuous look. * You're contemptuous of everything I do. * The company has shown a contemptuous disregard for Henry's complaints.
contemptuously adverb:
to laugh contemptuously
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for contemptuous is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is contemptuous a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, contemptuous is tagged as adjective.
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