How To Use Contemptuously In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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The insurgents refer contemptuously to the ISI as "blacklegs," for their supposedly darker skin.
With Friends Like These…
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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
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When I said that few people make real choices about their lives she sneered contemptuously at me.
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The brother of Miss Grandison, Sir, is not ac-customed to treat any man contemptuously.
Sir Charles Grandison
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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And now units of this vagrom and unstable street throng, which was forever shifting and changing about them, seemed to sense the psychologic error of all this in so far as these children were concerned, for they would nudge one another, the more sophisticated and indifferent lifting an eyebrow and smiling contemptuously, the more sympathetic or experienced commenting on the useless presence of these children.
An American Tragedy
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The disgrace of his first marriage might, perhaps, as there was no reason to suppose it perpetuated by offspring, have been got over, had he not done worse; but he had, as by the accustomary intervention of kind friends, they had been informed, spoken most disrespectfully of them all, most slightingly and contemptuously of the very blood he belonged to, and the honours which were hereafter to be his own.
Persuasion
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Milik "— Eve emphasized the alien name contemptuously —" none of this would have happened!
Perseus Spur
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The critic snorted contemptuously
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Broughton, contemptuously dismisses a claimant for the heroship of one of her stories, as the kind of man who turns up his trousers at the foot.
My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke
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'Condescend, sir! but I will not condescend to be so conversed with.' Montoni smiled contemptuously.
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I'd like to think he even used my name contemptuously, ''Vecsey!''
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The most brazen sophistry could not dignify by the name of "loan" the coin contemptuously flung to a beachcomber who slept on the bare boards of the public market.
Cabbages and Kings
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Gabrielle ground her teeth contemptuously, restraining herself from yelling back.
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Does not my word suffice? "contemptuously retorted the duke.
Under the Rose
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I would growl contemptuously at my reflection in the bathroom mirror each morning.
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Definitions of "Jack" include: boots; a diminutive of John used contemptuously to mean a saucy fellow; a footboy who pulls off his master's boots; a scream; a male; American slang for a stranger; American slang for a jackass; a cunning fellow who can do anything - such as a "Jack of all trades.
Portrait of a Killer
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Saddletree, somewhat contemptuously; ` ` there's no a callant that e'er carried a pock wi 'a process in't, but will tell you that perduellion is the warst and maist virulent kind of treason, being an open convocating of the king's lieges against his authority (mair especially in arms, and by touk of drum, to baith whilk accessories my een and lugs bore witness), and muckle worse than lese-majesty, or the concealment of a treasonable purpose --- It winna bear a dispute, neighbour.' '
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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she spoke of him contemptuously
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The farmer rears up contemptuously and roars, ‘You ever been hit in the head with a ‘soft rock’, boy?’
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Protestantism sat at ease, unmindful of schisms, careless of proselytism: Dissent was an inheritance along with a superior pew and a business connection; and Churchmanship only wondered contemptuously at Dissent as a foolish habit that clung greatly to families in the grocery and chandlering lines, though not incompatible with prosperous wholesale dealing.
XII. Mr. and Mrs. Glegg at Home. Book I—Boy and Girl
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All around her men and elves fell in bloody heaps, Krast spitting contemptuously on their broken bodies.
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‘Get your filthy hands off of me,’ she spits at Tristan contemptuously.
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He stopped showing at the Royal Academy when his paintings were contemptuously "skied" (hung high on the wall).
June 2008
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I envy those stolid people who can talk so contemptuously of frailty -- I mean I envy them their self-mastery; I quite understand the temperament of those who can be content with a slight exhilaration, and who fiercely contemn the crackbrain who does not know when to stop.
The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour
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He had refused definitely to enter the atelier of the gentleman who pleased his clients by ingeniously simulating the grain of walnut; and though he had seen the old oaken ambry kicked out contemptuously into the farmyard, serving perhaps the necessities of hens or pigs, he would not apprentice himself to the masters of veneer.
The Hill of Dreams
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They resented the invasion of their town and spoke contemptuously of the culture vultures who winged in from London, jumping the taxi queues and packing out restaurants.
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This is the term contemptuously applied in India to the paying of calls and other social duties that imply dancing attendance on the fair sex.
The Jungle Girl
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Churchmanship only wondered contemptuously at Dissent as a foolish habit that clung greatly to families in the grocery and chandlering lines, though not incompatible with prosperous wholesale dealing.
George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy
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After holding the jarldom for a long term, Torf-Einar died in his bed, as the Saga contemptuously tells us, probably in or after the year
Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns
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Bob Ewell spat contemptuously right in the lawyer's face.
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The most brazen sophistry could not dignify by the name of "loan" the coin contemptuously flung to a beach-comber who slept on the bare boards of the public market.
Cabbages and Kings
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The holier than thou always brings out the crude," he threw it at her contemptuously.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Far too many hackers and cyberpunks weren’t programmers at all—they were referred to contemptuously as “point-and-clickers.”
The Blue Nowhere
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A counter-proposal by Pakistan for an international force to be sent to Kashmir was then rejected contemptuously by India.
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But then, curiously, he did not snarl contemptuously that they were wrong and that he had a sackful of lawyers to say so.
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Kirghiz — they would watch while I bent horseshoes, twisted iron bars over my knees and performed what my father used to call contemptuously my circus tricks.
Dwellers in the Mirage
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I am what is contemptuously called a cit, yet I was treated with unfailing courtesy wherever I went.
A Christmas Bride
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The term Gothic was applied contemptuously to this architectural style by writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, who regarded everything non-classical as barbarous.
Early European History
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Hirst was once one of a new generation that contemptuously dethroned the old with the pzazz of bad behaviour, and art that was little more than a succession of stunts and gimmicks.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
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As Lizzie was an ardent Democrat, she spoke the name contemptuously -- for Dick Kelly was the Republican boss.
The Conflict
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They harangued him for his fall, sneered and jeered at him, rooted him about contemptuously with their feet, made a hollow in the sand out of which he could not roll and desposited him in it on his back, his four tied legs sticking ignominiously in the air above him.
CHAPTER XVI
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It is only five years since, in his 1963 New Year message, Dr Verwoerd referred contemptuously to the 'ducktail' nations of Africa who dared to criticize apartheid and, while unable to maintain stability in their own countries, worked for the downfall of the only stable power in Africa.
The Rise of the South African Reich - Chapter 15
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“Let the white-livered cowards have their way,” the old sailor said, contemptuously.
Mary Anerley
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He was familiar with the punctilio of duelling, the code of regulations for fencing, the rules of athletic sports, and the intricacies of the gaming-table; but anything which he dubbed contemptuously "book-learning," he considered as far beneath him as it really was above.
Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada
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The State of Oklahoma imposes a fine up to $3,000 and a jail term up to three years for anyone who contemptuously or maliciously burns, mutilates, defaces or tramples upon the U.S. flag.
Intertribal: barn burning
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So one night's jet-lagged sleep, and one day's dozy practice, and at Ballymore on 12 May they were beaten by Queensland by 15-11, after which the Queensland coach and former Wallaby international, Des Connor, contemptuously pronounced the certainty: "These Lions are hopeless; they are undoubtedly the worst team ever to be sent to New Zealand".
Des Connor's 1971 Lions-bait remains absolutely priceless | Frank Keating
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He dismissed my argument contemptuously as not worth refuting.
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It is hardly surprising that King was a spinster considering that she spoke contemptuously of the ‘hollow sham called matrimony’ in a letter to a recently married sister.
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First most of them were imported from among the interior peoples, untouched by the Swahili culture, peoples contemptuously referred to as shenzi or uncivilized barbarians by the coastal peoples.
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In today's world, someone who is cynical is said to be fault-finding and contemptuously distrustful of human motives.
Russell Bishop: What We Need Are A Few Good Cynics
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There had already been half a dozen casualties -- no deaths but bites and slashings, almost all from the little carnivores contemptuously known as dopy joes.
Tunnel In The Sky
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God was "manifest in the flesh," by his incarnation and passion therein; and "justified in the Spirit," by a declaration of his acquitment from the sentence of death and all the evils which he underwent, with the reproaches wherewith he was contemptuously used, by his quickening and resurrection from the dead, through the mighty and effectual working of the Spirit of God.
Pneumatologia
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It was a genuine bibliomane who is reported to have said contemptuously of a well-known scholar, — "He know about books! Nothing, nothing at all, I assure you, unless, perhaps, about their insides."
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Marcus Aurelius was contemptuously astonished at what he called the obstinacy of the Christians; he knew not from what source these nameless heroes drew a strength superior to his own, though he was at the same time emperor and sage.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03
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The inn-keeper in the Milan version is vexed and disconcerted with the frugality of the meal of leafage and bread, which has been contemptuously served on a tin plate.
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He dismissed my argument contemptuously as not worth refuting.
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He can whip the ball past mid-wicket in a flash, his straight-driving is out of the ordinary, and he can essay the pull stroke contemptuously.
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None o 'your gammon, Jake," the Virgin snapped back, with lip curled contemptuously for Vance's especial benefit.
CHAPTER 20
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Even the churned foam from a paddle wheel is _café au lait_ with what a blue-jacket contemptuously referred to as "a little more of the _au lait!
A Dweller in Mesopotamia Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden
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How could you dispute what's plain law, man?" said Saddletree, somewhat contemptuously; "there's no a callant that e'er carried a pock wi 'a process in't, but will tell you that perduellion is the warst and maist virulent kind of treason, being an open convocating of the king's lieges against his authority (mair especially in arms, and by touk of drum, to baith whilk accessories my een and lugs bore witness), and muckle worse than lese-majesty, or the concealment of a treasonable purpose -- It winna bear a dispute, neighbour.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete
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Bob Ewell spat contemptuously right in the lawyer's face.
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The duke inquires contemptuously whether his gamekeeper is the equal of the Astronomer Royal; but he insists that they shall both be hanged equally if they murder him.
Maxims for Revolutionists
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And _a brute beast _ -- whose fellow I had contemptuously destroyed -- _a brute beast_ to work out for _me_ -- for me a man, fashioned in the image of the High God -- so much of insufferable wo!
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
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One of my classmates at seminary snorted contemptuously at this notion, which he termed irrational superstition.
Beginner’s Grace
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The interpretation of this passage is that ben Azzai died prematurely, worn out by his activities in mystical and theosophic speculation; ben Zoma became demented thereby; Elisha, contemptuously referred to as Acher (the other), became an apostate; but Akiba was unaffected.
Pirke Avot Sayings of the Jewish Fathers
