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contemptuous 音标拼音: [kənt'ɛmptʃuəs] a. 轻蔑的,侮辱的,瞧不起人的 轻蔑的,侮辱的,瞧不起人的 contemptuous adj 1: expressing extreme contempt [ synonym: { contemptuous}, { disdainful}, { insulting}, { scornful}] Contemptuous \ Con* temp" tu* ous\ (?; 135), a. Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful. [ 1913 Webster] A proud, contemptuous behavior. -- Hammond. [ 1913 Webster] Savage invective and contemptuous sarcasm. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 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 " a very contemptible opinion of another." 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. [ 1913 Webster] 113 Moby Thesaurus words for " contemptuous": abjuratory, abusive, arrogant, audacious, back- biting, belittling, biggety, bitchy, blackening, blameful, bluff, bold, brash, brassy, brazen, bumptious, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, cavalier, censorious, challenging, cheeky, chutzpadik, clannish, cliquish, cocky, condemnatory, contumelious, crusty, damnatory, daring, declinatory, defamatory, defiant, defying, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, despising, detractory, disdainful, dismissive, disparaging, disregardful, disrespectful, exclusive, execrating, execrative, execratory, facy, flip, flippant, fresh, gally, gratuitous, greatly daring, haughty, impertinent, impudent, insolent, insulting, invective, inveighing, judgmental, libelous, malapert, minimizing, nervy, objurgatory, pejorative, pert, priggish, regardless of consequences, rejective, renunciative, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ridiculing, rude, sassy, saucy, scandalous, scoffing, scornful, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, slighting, smart, smart- alecky, smart- ass, sneering, sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, supercilious, toploftical, toplofty, uncalled- for, vilifying, vituperative, wise- ass, withering |
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