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contemptuous

adjective
🔊/kənˈtemptʃuəs/
🔊/kənˈtemptʃuəs/
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  1. feeling or showing that you have no respect for somebody/something蔑视的；鄙视的；表示轻蔑的 synonym scornful
    • She gave him a contemptuous look.她鄙夷地看了他一眼。🔊🔊
    • The company has shown a contemptuous disregard for Henry’s complaints.公司对亨利的抱怨漠然视之。
    • Her voice sounded almost contemptuous.她的语气近乎轻蔑。
    • contemptuous of somebody/something He was contemptuous of everything I did.他对我所做的一切都不屑一顾。🔊🔊
    Topics Feelingsc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • sound
    adverb
    • utterly
    • almost
    • openly
    • …
    preposition
    • of
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    Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘despising law and order’): from medieval Latin contemptuosus, from Latin contemptus ‘contempt’, from contemnere, from con- (expressing intensive force) + temnere ‘despise’.