Usually means: With scorn, disdain, or disrespect.
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  1. contemptuously: Merriam-Webster
  2. contemptuously: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contemptuously: Collins English Dictionary
  4. contemptuously: Vocabulary.com
  5. Contemptuously, contemptuously: Wordnik
  6. contemptuously: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. contemptuously: Wiktionary
  8. Contemptuously, contemptuously: Dictionary.com
  9. contemptuously: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Contemptuously: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. contemptuously: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. contemptuously: Rhymezone
  13. Contemptuously: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. contemptuously: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. contemptuously: FreeDictionary.org
  16. contemptuously: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. contemptuously: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. contemptuously: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a disrespectful or discourteous manner; condescendingly.

Similar:
disdainfully, contumeliously, scornfully, showing contempt, contemptibly, condescendingly, discourteously, disrespectfully, despisingly, uncivilly, more...

Opposite:
respectfully, deferentially, courteously

Types:
disdainfully, sneeringly, scornfully, derisively, mockingly, more...

Phrases:
reject contemptuously, laugh contemptuously, contemptuously smiled, dismiss contemptuously, smiled contemptuously, more...

Colors:
    gray,     black,     dark green,     olive,     mustard, more...

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Similar:
disdainfully, contumeliously, scornfully, showing contempt, contemptibly, condescendingly, discourteously, disrespectfully, despisingly, uncivilly, more...

Opposite:
respectfully, deferentially, courteously

Types:
disdainfully, sneeringly, scornfully, derisively, mockingly, more...

Phrases:
reject contemptuously, laugh contemptuously, contemptuously smiled, dismiss contemptuously, smiled contemptuously, more...

Colors:
    gray,     black,     dark green,     olive,     mustard, more...



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