How to Use contemptuous in a Sentence

contemptuous

adjective

• The name of this spiffy young devil, whose contemptuous charm is dripping from the stage of the Linda Gross Theater, is Mooney.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2018
• A contemptuous term for a black or dark-skinned person.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 18 Nov. 2016
• Robertson, for his part, was contemptuous of what Schlesinger had shot.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021
• Garza is almost contemptuous of the many people who seek her advice on how to grow their brand and go viral.
  — Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2020
• And yet, some of Villa’s fans remain contemptuous of him.
  — Bruce Schoenfeld Robert Fass Anna Diamond David Mason, New York Times, 4 May 2024
• Not posh, and neither impressed by nor contemptuous of those who were.
  — Ian McEwan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• Grandiosity is the sense of being above other people, and contemptuous of the rules.
  — Jancee Dunn, Vogue, 17 June 2022
• The answer, thankfully, is the former, as her contemptuous Mary Louise anchors much of the new episodes’ drama.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 6 June 2019
• For much of the hour-long contemptuous meeting, Ryan and Vance were constantly invoking the boogeymen around their foe.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 18 Oct. 2022
• The non-Olympian immortals who survive this coup view the usurping gods with disdain and are contemptuous of the humans who worship them.
  — Wendy Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
• Ted’s anger, Bill Walton remembered, seemed reserved for those who were contemptuous of the poor.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2024
• A decade ago, Steve Jobs was contemptuous of selling to businesses.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 28 June 2017
• Taliban forces have taken cities across the country with contemptuous ease, and the fall of the capital city Kabul is expected in weeks if not days.
  — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 14 Aug. 2021
• That contemptuous attitude has served Petty well over the decades.
  — Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 3 Oct. 2017
• That contemptuous remark may have cost Romney fils the election.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 7 Apr. 2023
• The Yonyx are equally contemptuous of the older robotic models.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2022
• And a third time, Curry, humiliated by James' contemptuous slap of his reverse layup into the stands in the sixth game of last year's Finals, got to the rim against him one-on-one and scored on a layup.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 4 June 2017
• It should be known that at the Criminal Court the aggressors, unpunished, contemptuous and proud, are mixed in with their victims.
  — Alice Gayraud, Marie Claire, 10 Mar. 2018
• The truth is, some in Congress are suspicious — even contemptuous — of in-house expertise.
  — Karen Tumulty, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
• The morning after Daemon and Rhaenyra's big night out, Mysaria is shown to be increasingly contemptuous of her lover.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 17 Sep. 2022
• There are effectively two states — one working class and more pro-Trump, and the other more upscale and deeply contemptuous of the president — that Ms. Collins must bridge.
  — Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2020
• The Baroness is more openly contemptuous than Priestly was and much of her behavior is criminal.
  — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 27 May 2021
• Shaw had been killed at the second battle of Fort Wagner, and contemptuous Confederate troops dumped the bodies of Shaw and his troops into a mass grave.
  — Alice George, Smithsonian, 25 July 2018
• But people who are more contemptuous of that system are much more interesting to me.
  — Choire Sicha, Vulture, 13 July 2023
• The recordings reveal a man who is fixated on his own celebrity, anxious about losing his status and contemptuous of those who fall from grace.
  — Michael Barbaro, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2016
• That’s a lot of money to give to institutions that have shown themselves contemptuous of conservative values and the cause of free inquiry.
  — Frederick M. Hess, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• The Punjabis were particularly contemptuous of the Bengalis’ skin color, which is a few shades darker than the Punjabi norm.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
• Sick of Miller and contemptuous of Nadel — whose own Roth biography paints him as terrified of intimacy and was published last month — Roth kept up the hunt.
  — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2021
• What happened to the idea that art and culture should be a contemptuous refuge from the mainstream, as opposed to this lickspittle, running dog accommodation to the mainstream?
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 3 June 2022
• Still, some onlookers felt conflicted, even contemptuous.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 1 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024