contemptuous
Speech parts
1. contemptuous - Adjective
2. contemptuous - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful.
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Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgastic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.
She gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!"
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.