About The Word Contemptuous
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Contemptuous
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What's The Definition Of Contemptuous?
[adj] expressing extreme contempt
Synonyms | Synonyms for Contemptuous: disdainful | disrespectful | insulting | scornful Related Terms | Find terms related to Contemptuous: abjuratory | abusive | arrogant | audacious | back-biting | belittling | biggety | bitchy | blackening | blameful | bluff | bold | brash | brassy | brazen | bumptious | calumniatory | calumnious | catty | cavalier | censorious | challenging | cheeky | chutzpadik | clannish | cliquish | cocky | condemnatory | contumelious | crusty | damnatory | daring | declinatory | defamatory | defiant | defying | denunciatory | deprecative | deprecatory | depreciative | depreciatory | derisive | derisory | derogative | derogatory | despising | detractory | disdainful | dismissive | disparaging | disregardful | disrespectful | exclusive | execrating | execrative | execratory | facy | flip | flippant | fresh | gally | gratuitous | greatly daring | haughty | impertinent | impudent | insolent | insulting | invective | inveighing | judgmental | libelous | malapert | minimizing | nervy | objurgatory | pejorative | pert | priggish | regardless of consequences | rejective | renunciative | reproachful | reprobative | reviling | ridiculing | rude | sassy | saucy | scandalous | scoffing | scornful | scurrile | scurrilous | slanderous | slighting | smart | smart-alecky | smart-ass | sneering | sniffy | snobbish | snobby | snooty | snotty | supercilious | toploftical | toplofty | uncalled-for | vilifying | vituperative | wise-ass | withering See Also | Contemptuous In Webster's Dictionary \Con*temp"tu*ous\ (?; 135), a.
Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful;
haughty; insolent; disdainful.
A proud, contemptuous behavior. --Hammond.
Savage invective and contemptuous sarcasm. --Macaulay.
Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of
the Jews. --Atterbury.
Syn: Scornful; insolent; haughty; disdainful; supercilious;
insulting; contumelious.
Usage: {Contemptuous}, {Contemptible}. These words, from
their similarity of sound, are sometimes erroneously
interchanged, as when a person speaks of having ``a
very contemptible opinion of another.'' Contemptible
is applied to that which is the object of contempt;
as, contemptible conduct; acontemptible fellow.
Contemptuous is applied to that which indicates
contempt; as, a contemptuous look; a contemptuous
remark; contemptuous treatment. A person, or whatever
is personal, as an action, an expression, a feeling,
an opinion, may be either contemptuous or
contemptible; a thing may be contemptible, but can not
be contemptuous.
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