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English Dictionary: contemptuous by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
contemptuous
adj
  1. expressing extreme contempt [syn: contemptuous, disdainful, insulting, scornful]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Contemptuous \Con*temp"tu*ous\ (?; 135), a.
      Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful;
      haughty; insolent; disdainful.
  
               A proud, contemptuous behavior.               --Hammond.
  
               Savage invective and contemptuous sarcasm. --Macaulay.
  
               Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of
               the Jews.                                                --Atterbury.
  
      Syn: Scornful; insolent; haughty; disdainful; supercilious;
               insulting; contumelious.
  
      Usage: {Contemptuous}, {Contemptible}. These words, from
                  their similarity of sound, are sometimes erroneously
                  interchanged, as when a person speaks of having [bd]a
                  very contemptible opinion of another.[b8] Contemptible
                  is applied to that which is the object of contempt;
                  as, contemptible conduct; acontemptible fellow.
                  Contemptuous is applied to that which indicates
                  contempt; as, a contemptuous look; a contemptuous
                  remark; contemptuous treatment. A person, or whatever
                  is personal, as an action, an expression, a feeling,
                  an opinion, may be either contemptuous or
                  contemptible; a thing may be contemptible, but can not
                  be contemptuous.
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