contemptuously

How To Use contemptuously In A Sentence

• Of course the 'nester' or 'punkin roller,' as we contemptuously called the small farmer, began sifting in here and there in spite of our guns, but he was only a mosquito bite in comparison with the trouble which our cow-punchers stirred up. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West
• He contemptuously dismissed any suggestion to the effect that the dollar was overvalued, or that its climb to record highs on a trade-weighted basis was becoming a source of economic instability.
• The insurgents refer contemptuously to the ISI as "blacklegs," for their supposedly darker skin. With Friends Like These…
• No wonder old Jocelyn had called her "wilding" -- she was indeed a "wilding" or weed, -- growing up unwanted in the garden of the world, destined to be pulled out of the soil where she had nourished and thrown contemptuously aside. Innocent : her fancy and his fact
• When I said that few people make real choices about their lives she sneered contemptuously at me.
• The brother of Miss Grandison, Sir, is not ac-customed to treat any man contemptuously. Sir Charles Grandison
• Some while later he contemptuously clomb the knoll anew and preached in a voice filled with fulmination: "God consists of three potatoes and seven turnips which have been combined in an ingenious manner. Archive 2009-08-01
• Pooh!" ejaculated "Old Jock" contemptuously -- "I've no fear of being troubled by them again. Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea
• But at the date of the "Cross Readings" he was mainly what Burke, speaking contemptuously of his status as a plenipotentiary, styled a "_diseur de bons mots_"; and he was for this reason included among those "most distinguished Wits of the Metropolis," who, following Garrick's lead in 1774, diverted themselves at the St. James's Coffee-house by composing the epitaphs on Goldsmith which gave rise to the incomparable gallery entitled _Retaliation_. De Libris: Prose and Verse
• After the expulsion of the master, the Twentieth School fell upon evil days, for the trustees decided that it would be better to try "gurl" teachers, as Hughie contemptuously called them; and this policy prevailed for two or three years, with the result that the big boys left the school, and with their departure the old heroic age passed away, to be succeeded by an age soft, law-abiding, and distinctly commercial. Glengarry School Days: a story of early days in Glengarry