This contemptuous neglect arises from two causes, first because it is out of place, and secondly because it too often contains a great deal of twaddle.
It is verycontemptuous to say of a man, that he has but one idea, but it is the highest meed of praise that can be bestowed on a book.
Every letter which you wrote to me when I was in New York was more contemptuous than the letter which had preceded it.
She had no memory for the contemptuous letters which she had written and Tony had carried under his pillow on the North Sea.
To that end the contemptuous smile of a lady far away in Paris had brought him.
He was contemptuousof fate--it could not harm him now!
English; but the man, with a contemptuous shrug, motioned him to stand back.
Lord Harrington's opinion of the Irish Parliament was even more contemptuous than his brother's, and he affected at all times a sneering attitude towards the members of both houses.
Dignified prelates, hovering in draughty rooms and corridors, were twitted mercilessly by my Lord Wharton, who was the most contemptuous enemy the Protestant faith ever knew.
She was an invalid and contemptuous of the Irish, though the records of some of their entertainments in Dublin Castle prove that she was lavish in her hospitality, and even invited the heads of the great Irish families.
A contemptuous remark about Elizabeth Grey cost the Earl of Desmond his life, Worcester executing him at Drogheda in 1468, ostensibly on a charge of high treason.
At first even these contemptuous Mahomedans were satisfied.
When he crossed the Persian border, he found himself received with a certain contemptuous pity.
With a contemptuous smile he said: "I'm sure no advice of mine is needed; Miss Conklin has already made up her mind to gratify you.
Our mad friend he hardly deigned to notice, and pointed at him in a most contemptuous way.
The present Guy sat and gazed at it, till the likeness grew in his own face, and he tried to force his trembling lips into the contemptuous smile which he felt himself to deserve.
A contemptuous glance was my reply, which was returned by a sidelong withering glare of hate.
Mr. Moncton regarded me with a haughty and contemptuous smile.
Plato's low estimate of art appears also in his theory of art as imitation, and his contemptuous references to the nature of artistic genius.
Art is thus not, in Plato's contemptuous phrase, a copy of a copy.
No writer has ever used such contemptuous language as Plato used of the mere mystic and poet, who says wise and beautiful things, without in the least understanding why they are wise and beautiful.
Francis Bacon in his "Novum Organum" has manycontemptuous references to Aristotle.
How can you be contemptuous of God's children, whom the physical universe has colored brown or black or yellow--you, who are indignant when a beast is overburdened?
On Lawson's lips lay a subtly contemptuous smile, and he uttered no word--did not lift a hand till the carriage was at the door.
The editor replied that he had just printed a curt, contemptuous notice, and could not at once take the other track.
How they lounge aloof Each with his Triad, three plays to my one, Not counting the contemptuous fourth, the frank Concession to mere mortal levity, Satyric pittance tossed our beggar-world!
She had slid away a contemptuous space: And the old fat woman, late so placable, Eyed me with symptoms, hardly mistakable, Of her milk of kindness turning rancid.
The man drew down the comers of his mouth in a contemptuous grimace.
Every one besides stood uncovered, and the populace cheered loudly; while he displayed a sort of contemptuous indifference, and remained motionless as a statue.
Occasionally a fox whisked out of sight with a contemptuous flirt of its brush.
He rose to go down to his motor, and I shouted after him contemptuous and profane criticism.
So strong was the desire that, though he coloured and felt awkward at the contemptuous reference to his father, he sniggered and went on talking, as if nothing untoward had been said.
Gourlay's men took their cue from their master, and were contemptuousof Barbie, most unchivalrous scorners of its old maids.
There had been nothing to warn him of a coming change, for Gourlay was too contemptuous of his wife and children to inform them how his business stood.
However, he'd only laugh--he was always so very contemptuous of souls.
Her silent presence was not favorable to conversation; and a sudden jealousy of this self-satisfied and contemptuous creature overcame Sylvia.
She indicated the direction of the door with a contemptuous inclination of the head, and the waiter retired.
But though all wanton provocations and contemptuous insolence are to be diligently avoided, there is no less danger in timid compliance and tame resignation.
Hanky-panky," replied the other, with a contemptuous snort.
And the speaker knocked the ashes out of his pipe with a contemptuous jerk.
Claverton, in a cold, contemptuous tone, turning his head slightly towards the speaker.
Serfs and villeins ye be, and serfs and villeins ye remain," called a strong, contemptuous voice from the doorway.
It was rather a wish of distinction, she believed, which produced his contemptuous treatment of every body, and his general abuse of every thing before him.
But although she spoke as she did, there was something, either in the curate or in the sermon, that had quieted her a little, and she was less contemptuous in her condemnation of him than usual.
It simply reflects the contemptuous attitude of the time toward Napoleon, and underestimates the danger.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contemptuous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
