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contemptuous
Expressing disdain; showing a lack of respect.
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Sir George burst into a loud fit of contemptuous laughter.
The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
(rare) Worthy of contempt; contemptible.
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