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单词 contemptuous
释义
contemptuous
adjective
uk
/kənˈtemp.tʃu.əs/us
/kənˈtemp.tʃu.əs/
expressingcontempt:
轻蔑的，轻视的，鄙视的
a contemptuousmanner/laugh轻蔑的态度／大笑
He was very contemptuousof"popular"writers, whom hedescribedas having notalent.他很瞧不起“当红”作家，认为他们缺少才华。
Synonym
scornful
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Not liking
  • abhor
  • abide
  • abominate
  • anti-American
  • anti-British
  • cup
  • cut
  • despise
  • detest
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  • disdainful
  • disdainfully
  • mind
  • not besomeone'scup of teaidiom
  • not go much onsomethingidiom
  • not have a civil word to say aboutsomeoneidiom
  • not know whatsomeonesees insomeone/somethingidiom
  • not take kindly tosomethingidiom
  • stand
  • thing
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Related word

contemptuously
(Definition ofcontemptuousfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

contemptuous| American Dictionary

contemptuous
adjective
us
/kənˈtem·tʃə·wəs/
expressingorfeelingalackofrespect:
As one of theseniormembersof theSenate, he wasopenlycontemptuous ofitsjuniormembers.
(Definition ofcontemptuousfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcontemptuous

contemptuous
Disciplined, resilient, intellectual, proud,contemptuousof others, immune to criticism from the outside, they are literally fashioned for survival.
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The tone of their assessments iscontemptuousin nature, however unfortunately, as stated earlier, such 'play' can do much to increase technical confidence and ability.
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The portrayal thus reverses the usual vector of disapproval of (or disgust for, orcontemptuous'admiration' of) males in loincloth, animal skins, unruly hair.
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Revivalists werecontemptuousof church bureaucracy, disrespectful of elders' laws.
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In the preceding discussion we have considered the case where a defendant is found but iscontemptuousof legal process.
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For this is not an indiscriminatelycontemptuouswoman.
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We arecontemptuousof intolerance, but have developed a new list of things we cannot tolerate.
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If they saw the abysmal cultural and technical level of most applications that confront the average conservation officer, they would be lesscontemptuous.
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It shall remind us of what happens when freedom, the most precious good of mankind, gets lost and is replaced by dogmascontemptuousof human life.
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It is more likely that physicians (and students) who have an attitude of respect toward their patients will try to behave respectfully than someone who is disdainful orcontemptuous.
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She wascontemptuousof the educational establishments and employers that refused to recognise her abilities and of the benefits authorities that didn't understand the systems they were supposed to operate.
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Brown, in particular, wascontemptuousof the foreign office's caution and, convinced that his officials were plotting against him, ignored advice he did not want to hear (p. 109).
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Lee himself is very fair in his comments, notcontemptuousof attitudes with which he disagrees, or scrupulously careful to avoid giving offence to any group of readers.
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He said, in a rathercontemptuousway, that these wretched people were not even fit to run the fire and police services.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
It suits them to forget the postmen's strike and thecontemptuousway in which they ground the postmen into ignominious defeat.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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