contemptuous as an adjective: - 1
contemptuous
adjective
1 contemptuous
Expressing extreme contempt.
synonyms: disdainful, insulting, scornful.
Roget 930:
contemptuous;
disdainful,
scornful;
withering,
contumelious,
supercilious,
cynical,
haughty,
bumptious,
cavalier;
derisive.
contemptible,
despicable;
pitiable;
pitiful
etc.
(unimportant)
643;
despised
etc.
v.;
downtrodden;
unenvied†.
unrespectable
(unworthy)
874.
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Roget 929:
disrespectful;
aweless,
irreverent;
disparaging
etc.
934;
insulting
etc.
v.;
supercilious,
contemptuous,
patronizing
etc.
(scornful)
930;
rude,
derisive,
sarcastic;
scurrile,
scurrilous;
contumelious.
unrespected†,
unworshiped†,
unenvied†,
unsaluted†;
unregarded†,
disregarded.
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Polish: pogardliwy, wzgardliwy
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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