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Recent Examples of contemptuous According to an ancient Greek myth, all those who had fallen in love with the young man Narcissus were met with contemptuous rejection. Abigayle Ward, Hartford Courant, 8 Mar. 2025 The president was also profoundly contemptuous of women, kept his true opposition to female suffrage carefully hidden, and allowed the suffragists who silently held banners outside the White House to be repeatedly attacked by mobs, beaten, and jailed. Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025 The arguments Republicans have made in their opposition to Joe Biden’s contemptuous pardons are pretty compelling. Noah Rothman, National Review, 21 Jan. 2025 Written by Fielding, Richard Naylor and Jon Brittain, the series followed the contemptuous life of the 18th-century highwayman, known in York, England, as a thief, poacher and killer but whose exploits have been widely romanticized in modern culture. Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for contemptuous
Recent Examples of Synonyms for contemptuous
Adjective
  • Wise minds inside the Trump administration will hopefully choose to drop a suit first introduced during by a Biden administration reflexively disdainful of big.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Now, with Donald J. Trump installed in the White House, Mr. Zelensky is facing a new challenge: maintaining good relations with the country’s most critical ally and a president who has been disdainful toward him and skeptical of military aid.
    Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Major studios have grown gun-shy about funding anything remotely risky; even a risk well taken can prompt a knee-jerk, scornful reaction from not only the executives but also the press: The film could, even should, have done better.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Meghan Markle's Netflix Backlash Meghan's Netflix show earned scornful reviews not only in the British press, long the villains of Meghan and Prince Harry's narrative, but also among U.S. outlets that previously provided glowing coverage.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Trump began the meeting by mildly insulting Ramaphosa, who took it in stride.
    Meredith Kile, People.com, 21 May 2025
  • The idea that women need to be properly taught how to conceive a child through a government program is a particularly insulting proposal, says Reshma Saujani, the founder and CEO of Moms First.
    Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • For example, when a man in his sixties talks about the same thing, he’s seen as calm and logical, but when a woman in her twenties talks about it, she’s seen as arrogant or trying to act mature.
    Billboard Japan, Billboard, 15 May 2025
  • By losing some of its arrogant charm, Doom has also lost the means to back it up.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • The malicious URLs outputted in the response are in clickable form, meaning all a user has to do is click one to be taken to a malicious site.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 23 May 2025
  • Enhances visibility and control of network traffic and user activities and detects and blocks malicious activities.
    Mickey Singh, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • What Israel is promising is not yet another round of fighting, but a criminal escalation of a morally abhorrent war.
    Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 12 May 2025
  • Our hearts go out to all of those affected by this abhorrent act.
    Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The 2023 Economic Report Of The President published in March of 2023 was relatively disparaging of cryptoassets and DLTs.
    Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Prior to appearing on Cunningham's show on Monday, Huggins made more disparaging remarks about Xavier.
    Emily DeLetter, The Enquirer, 10 May 2023
Adjective
  • Scheifele’s emotional and inspirational decision to play mere hours after his father’s unexpected death — to play for his dad, to play because of his dad — ended in cruel fashion, with Scheifele helpless in the penalty box.
    Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 18 May 2025
  • At first the program seems to be benign, but Hayakawa’s film steadily reveals how the policy thrives on the cruel capitalist tenet that people are disposable.
    Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2025

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“Contemptuous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contemptuous. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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