Contemptuous

Examples

• It woke a certain keen, half contemptuous pity, tenderness for him: she was so ruthless. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• 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. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• There is nothing of which he is more contemptuous than the love of money. Plato. The Republic.
• His host's contemptuous tribute to May's niceness was just what a husband should have wished to hear said of his wife. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Oh,' returned Tom, with contemptuous patronage, 'she's a regular girl. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• 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. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• She was afraid she had used some strong, some contemptuous expressions in speaking of the clergy, and that should not have been. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Gudrun entered the taxi, with the deliberate cold movement of a woman who is well-dressed and contemptuous in her soul. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He's not fitted to be a public man, said Lydgate, with contemptuous decision. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• You're a nice one,' added Sikes, as he surveyed her with a contemptuous air, 'to take up the humane and gen--teel side! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Well, my boy, said Legree, with a contemptuous kick, how do you find yourself? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Listen to me, Amelia, said Becky, marching up and down the room before the other and surveying her with a sort of contemptuous kindness. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• 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. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Oh, it's worse than foolish; it's downright sneaking, you know,' replied Lowten, nibbing the pen with a contemptuous face. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• One of his dodges,' said Mr Fledgeby, with a cool and contemptuous shrug. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Instinctively each felt her contemptuous mockery of the human being in himself, or herself. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Mostly her heart was closed in this hidden, unconscious strain of contemptuous ridicule. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The late John Harmon might have thought it rather a contemptuous and lofty word of repudiation. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• 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. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• In face, watchful behind a blind; habitually not uncensorious and contemptuous perhaps. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Bradley answered with a contemptuous laugh. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mr. Pott winced beneath the contemptuous gaze of his wife. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• His face was set into rigid lines of contemptuous defiance; neither hope nor fear could be read there. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• A dry laugh, an insulting sneer, a contemptuous taunt, met by a nonchalant but most cutting reply, were the signals. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Orderly, the officer called in a contemptuous voice. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Lydgate's conceit was of the arrogant sort, never simpering, never impertinent, but massive in its claims and benevolently contemptuous. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There was nothing for it now, but contemptuous, resistant indifference. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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