Usually means: Displaying scorn or disrespect openly.
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  1. contemptuous: Merriam-Webster
  2. contemptuous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contemptuous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. contemptuous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. contemptuous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Contemptuous, contemptuous: Wordnik
  7. contemptuous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. contemptuous: Wiktionary
  9. contemptuous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. contemptuous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. contemptuous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Contemptuous, contemptuous: Dictionary.com
  13. contemptuous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Contemptuous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Contemptuous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. contemptuous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. contemptuous: Rhymezone
  18. Contemptuous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. contemptuous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. contemptuous: FreeDictionary.org
  21. contemptuous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. contemptuous: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. contemptuous: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contemptuous: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Contemptuous: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (contemptuous)

▸ adjective:  Showing contempt; expressing disdain; showing a lack of respect.
▸ adjective:  (rare) Worthy of contempt; contemptible.

Similar:
disdainful, scornful, insulting, disrespectful, disrespective, respectless, slighted, dispunct, scornless, unthinking, more...

Opposite:
respectful, admiring, venerating

Types:
derisive, sneering, mocking, derisory, sarcastic, sardonic, cynical, more...

Phrases:
contemptuous sounds, contemptuous sound, contemptuous smile, contemptuous look, contemptuous expression, more...

Adjectives:
little, first, simple, whole, much, plain, sheer, worst, sullen, wondrous, british

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    charcoal,     slate gray,     olive green,     mustard yellow,     burnt umber, more...

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Similar:
disdainful, scornful, insulting, disrespectful, disrespective, respectless, slighted, dispunct, scornless, unthinking, more...

Opposite:
respectful, admiring, venerating

Types:
derisive, sneering, mocking, derisory, sarcastic, sardonic, cynical, more...

Phrases:
contemptuous sounds, contemptuous sound, contemptuous smile, contemptuous look, contemptuous expression, contemptuous or disregard of others, contemptuous laughter, contemptuous ridicule, self contemptuous, more...

Adjectives:
little, first, simple, whole, much, plain, sheer, worst, sullen, wondrous, british

Colors:
    charcoal,     slate gray,     olive green,     mustard yellow,     burnt umber, more...



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