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comparative more contemptuous, superlative most contemptuous
Showing contempt; expressing disdain; showing a lack of respect. quotations examples
Sir George burst into a loud fit of contemptuous laughter.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Challenge”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 234
The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest