feeling or showing that you have no respect for someone or something synonym scornful She gave him a contemptuous look. The company has shown a contemptuous disregard for Henry's complaints. contemptuous of somebody/something He was contemptuous of everything I did.
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adverb to laugh contemptuouslySee contemptuous in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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