Each of the captains selected his proper share of the birds, with the exception of Bodmilcar, who contemptuously refused.
Casey snarled as contemptuously as was possible to a man in his condition.
The story of the crippled miner made him curl his lip contemptuously when his back was safely turned from Joe.
She came upon, finally, the bundle of papers he had tossed contemptuously on the table the night before, and recognized it as the manuscript upon which he had been working.
The more he read, the more dissatisfied he looked, and finally he rolled the papers up again and thrust them contemptuously on the table.
Now this question vexed them, for were he to return to his mother they should lose his music, so the Queen tilted her nose contemptuously and said, 'Pooh!
These dainty ones are themselves contemptuously called Figs by David and other heroes, and you have a key to the manners and customs of this dandiacal section of the Gardens when I tell you that cricket is called crickets here.
He waved his hand rather contemptuously and turned upon his heel; but Maxwell, now boiling with passion, placed himself in front of him, and drew his sword.
Natalya would sniff contemptuously at the muddle of ancient finery on the floor and spurn it with her foot.
He calls himself the "sweet singer in Israel,"' contemptuously replied Ostrovsky's remaining parasite.
Sullen and mortified he listened contemptuously to the play.
Everybody had so timidly given way before him, as he marched down at the head of his men, that he seemed to be justified in smiling contemptuously whenever such an event occurred.
He pushed the half-dead man contemptuously from him, opened the door, and rushed out.
The gods Leocadia contemptuously called "miserable," and the polite and flattering Dacian came in for a share of her impassioned vituperation with the consequences she naturally desired.
He turns contemptuously and goes to the hearth, where he stands with his back to her.
Monty was accustomed to entering the room unnoticed, but on the present occasion he saw that instead of contemptuously ignoring his presence, the other occupants of the saloon were unmistakably scowling at him.
By the time the sixth or seventh hole is reached, the all-important card has perhaps been torn up into little pieces and flung contemptuously into a convenient ditch.
The Dey would contemptuously hand over a magnificently jewelled watch to his head cook in the presence of the donor; and no consul was received at the Palace until the "customary presents" were received.
DAGO, a name given somewhat contemptuouslyto Spanish, Portuguese and Italian sailors, as "Dutchman" is similarly applied to Germans and Scandinavians as well as to natives of Holland.
House from two-thirty to eleven, with what Gilly contemptuously termed "stoking" slipped in anywhere: there was hardly time for real absorption.
Harry Belfield had been the hero of his youth, his ideal, his touchstone of excellence in all things, the standard by which he humbly measured his own sore deficiencies, and contemptuously assessed the demerits of his schoolfellows.
To through-going anti-slavery men this seemed like an apology for the war, and a most ill-timed revival of the policy of conciliation, which had been so uniformly and contemptuously spurned by the enemy.
Indeed, the main issue and cardinal problem, the relation of nationality to humanity, the conflict between the duties we owe to the one and the duties we owe to the other, is contemptuously relegated to a footnote (p.
He was contemptuously invited to give a practical illustration of his theory.
Ambition, anxiety to retrieve his reputation, already blemished by his enforced retreat, the thought that he might be superseded by McClellan, whose operations in the Peninsula he had contemptuously criticised, all urged him forward.
As a rule they would not listen to suggestions of investing their money in what was contemptuously termed rotten poles and rusty wires.
It is a derivative of saboter, to scamp work, from sabot, a wooden shoe, used contemptuously of an inferior article.
He used this phrase in a contemptuously satirical manner: it was impossible for Ammidon actually to marry a Manchu.
Whereupon Domitian contemptuously dismissed them as too simple to be dangerous, and ordered that the persecution of the descendants of David should cease.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contemptuously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
