Contemptuous
[kən'tem(p)tjʊəs] or [kən'tɛmptʃuəs]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful.
編輯:奥斯本
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Insolent, scornful, disdainful, supercilious, haughty.
黛尔編輯
同義詞及反義詞:
[See SUPERCILIOUS]
校對:米利森特
例句/造句/用法:
- It woke a certain keen, half contemptuous pity, tenderness for him: she was so ruthless. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- In one group, it may be met by recourse to fisticuffs, in another by a challenge to a duel, in a third by an exhibition of contemptuous disregard. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- There is nothing of which he is more contemptuous than the love of money. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- His host's contemptuous tribute to May's niceness was just what a husband should have wished to hear said of his wife. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Oh,' returned Tom, with contemptuous patronage, 'she's a regular girl. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- But I never thought there was anything low and small in my keeping away from Joe, because I knew she would be contemptuous of him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- She was afraid she had used some strong, some contemptuous expressions in speaking of the clergy, and that should not have been. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Gudrun entered the taxi, with the deliberate cold movement of a woman who is well-dressed and contemptuous in her soul. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He's not fitted to be a public man, said Lydgate, with contemptuous decision. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- You're a nice one,' added Sikes, as he surveyed her with a contemptuous air, 'to take up the humane and gen--teel side! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Well, my boy, said Legree, with a contemptuous kick, how do you find yourself? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Listen to me, Amelia, said Becky, marching up and down the room before the other and surveying her with a sort of contemptuous kindness. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He paused a moment before Dolph; then spitting a discharge of tobacco-juice on his well-blacked boots, and giving a contemptuous umph, he walked on. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Oh, it's worse than foolish; it's downright sneaking, you know,' replied Lowten, nibbing the pen with a contemptuous face. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- One of his dodges,' said Mr Fledgeby, with a cool and contemptuous shrug. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Instinctively each felt her contemptuous mockery of the human being in himself, or herself. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Mostly her heart was closed in this hidden, unconscious strain of contemptuous ridicule. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The late John Harmon might have thought it rather a contemptuous and lofty word of repudiation. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- If Mr. Pott had a weakness, it was, perhaps, that he was rather too submissive to the somewhat contemptuous control and sway of his wife. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- In face, watchful behind a blind; habitually not uncensorious and contemptuous perhaps. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Bradley answered with a contemptuous laugh. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Mr. Pott winced beneath the contemptuous gaze of his wife. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- His face was set into rigid lines of contemptuous defiance; neither hope nor fear could be read there. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- A dry laugh, an insulting sneer, a contemptuous taunt, met by a nonchalant but most cutting reply, were the signals. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Orderly, the officer called in a contemptuous voice. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Lydgate's conceit was of the arrogant sort, never simpering, never impertinent, but massive in its claims and benevolently contemptuous. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- There was nothing for it now, but contemptuous, resistant indifference. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
校對:米利森特