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contemptuous ADJ

put on a contemptuous mien VB

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The central character is a confusing person, at once an intellectual snob who is contemptuous of others and also a person who commits outrageous mistakes.
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Park remained committed to his economic vision and contemptuous of calls for democratization and distributional equity.
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Asserting that people should observe themselves from a distance, she comes to possess a cynical and contemptuous personality, which becomes her defense mechanism.
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He was contemptuous of politics, socialism, communism, pacifism and capitalism (unless the employers treated their employees very well).
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As a result, she is contemptuous nearly everything that men think or do.
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Controversy erupted, and it continued to sell well despite contemptuous dismissal by scientists.
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Other sources add to that: mean, contemptuous, and uncommunicative.
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It originated as a contemptuous way of saying one does not want to hear what the person who is speaking is saying.
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His literary-critical style was arrogant and insulting, using humiliating and contemptuous expressions for his opponents.
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Joey, contemptuous of his father, refuses to go.
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