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How to use contemptuously in a sentence

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But then, curiously, he did not snarl contemptuously that they were wrong and that he had a sackful of lawyers to say so.
A counter-proposal by Pakistan for an international force to be sent to Kashmir was then rejected contemptuously by India.
Gabrielle ground her teeth contemptuously, restraining herself from yelling back.
She would be unlikely to advance her interests by sneering contemptuously at the people of her own state.
I would growl contemptuously at my reflection in the bathroom mirror each morning.
He contemptuously declined to take his fee in irredeemable currency, however profusely offered.
She opened her eyes, staring contemptuously into the shadows that greeted her.
There are clown voodoo dolls flung contemptuously across the room to land all floppy on a shelf.
She stopped pacing to fold her arms over her chest and look contemptuously on the boy.
Critics who express doubts about the underpinnings of the current recovery are contemptuously shot down.
He can whip the ball past mid-wicket in a flash, his straight-driving is out of the ordinary, and he can essay the pull stroke contemptuously.
When I said that few people make real choices about their lives she sneered contemptuously at me.
He curls his lip contemptuously, and gives me one of his looks.
He likes to present himself as a historian, contemptuously rejecting what eminent historians and experienced history teachers tell him about the history curriculum.
The enemy being three to one grappled him contemptuously with iron hooks, and when the ships were fastened together the battle was fought as though it were on land.
Venice was contemptuously swept away by Napoleon, and the last doge voted himself out of office.
They are now treating the rule of law as contemptuously as Mr Castro himself does.
A member of my own party very recently spoke of it contemptuously as old, unpalatable rubbish, but it really is nothing of the kind.
When President Borrell, however, contemptuously suggested that Mr Buttiglione should take care of agriculture, what was he trying to say?
When Arnold complains of the slight in the official report on the battle Gates contemptuously restricts him to quarters.
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Still smiling, he took the sword from theron, who watched him contemptuously.
And I believe I smiled a little too contemptuously for a sister to a sister.
What actuary, he asks contemptuously, can appraise the value of a man's opinions?
I hastened with my papers to Lieutenant Adrian, who glanced over them contemptuously.
The commissionaire regarded him contemptuously, but did not reply to the sarcasm.
It was upon the lamb and the ewe that they sprang, ignoring the ram contemptuously.
She tried to sniff contemptuously, but succeeded in producing only a sniffle.
Treated as the offscouring of all things, he was at last contemptuously beheaded in utter obscurity.
Prasad, in turn, read the letter, and then tossed it contemptuously from him.
On that he paused, and after an instant's silence Asad laughed angrily and contemptuously.
Mamma Pepperall watched him cavort a moment, then sniffed contemptuously, and rolled out like a fireman summoned.
The otherwise immovable Miss Murdstone laughed contemptuously in one short syllable.
These charges were contemptuously dismissed by the presbyterial court.
He stooped, picked it up, and cast it contemptuously from him.
She had always looked on him contemptuously as an amiable, transparent lout, and now he was puzzling her.
It is common to hear them spoken of slightingly and contemptuously.
And each time Zilla had looked sourer than ever and grunted more contemptuously.
Chip saw and interpreted the glance, somewhat contemptuously.
Dolokhov smiled contemptuously and condescendingly when Anatole had gone out.
One general, evidently feeling offended at having to wait so long, sat crossing and uncrossing his legs and smiling contemptuously to himself.
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