How to Use contemptuous in a Sentence

contemptuous

adjective

• Not posh, and neither impressed by nor contemptuous of those who were.
  — Ian McEwan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• Robertson, for his part, was contemptuous of what Schlesinger had shot.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021
• Garza is almost contemptuous of the many people who seek her advice on how to grow their brand and go viral.
  — Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2020
• Some of the reviews and the coverage were so contemptuous.
  — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
• But people who are more contemptuous of that system are much more interesting to me.
  — Choire Sicha, Vulture, 13 July 2023
• Grandiosity is the sense of being above other people, and contemptuous of the rules.
  — Jancee Dunn, Vogue, 17 June 2022
• That contemptuous remark may have cost Romney fils the election.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 7 Apr. 2023
• That contemptuous attitude has served Petty well over the decades.
  — Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 3 Oct. 2017
• The rocket lifted away slowly, as though in contemptuous defiance of physics.
  — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2024
• All the more so with a president so contemptuous of institutions.
  — The Economist, 30 June 2018
• Ted’s anger, Bill Walton remembered, seemed reserved for those who were contemptuous of the poor.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2024
• The Yonyx are equally contemptuous of the older robotic models.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2022
• The truth is, some in Congress are suspicious — even contemptuous — of in-house expertise.
  — Karen Tumulty, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
• The recordings reveal a man who is fixated on his own celebrity, anxious about losing his status and contemptuous of those who fall from grace.
  — Michael Barbaro, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2016
• The fantasy of transforming a cold or contemptuous man through the sheer force of one’s love has caused real harm, and the critique of it is warranted.
  — Literary Hub, 29 June 2026
• The non-Olympian immortals who survive this coup view the usurping gods with disdain and are contemptuous of the humans who worship them.
  — Wendy Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
• The Baroness is more openly contemptuous than Priestly was and much of her behavior is criminal.
  — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 27 May 2021
• For much of the hour-long contemptuous meeting, Ryan and Vance were constantly invoking the boogeymen around their foe.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 18 Oct. 2022
• Taliban forces have taken cities across the country with contemptuous ease, and the fall of the capital city Kabul is expected in weeks if not days.
  — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 14 Aug. 2021
• The answer, thankfully, is the former, as her contemptuous Mary Louise anchors much of the new episodes’ drama.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 6 June 2019
• All of these flaws are conveniently overlooked by the purveyors of all of these instruments and done so in a way that is contemptuous of those who would contest it or even quibble with it.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 30 Nov. 2025
• The name of this spiffy young devil, whose contemptuous charm is dripping from the stage of the Linda Gross Theater, is Mooney.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2018
• It should be known that at the Criminal Court the aggressors, unpunished, contemptuous and proud, are mixed in with their victims.
  — Alice Gayraud, Marie Claire, 10 Mar. 2018
• 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 morning after Daemon and Rhaenyra's big night out, Mysaria is shown to be increasingly contemptuous of her lover.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 17 Sep. 2022
• Cheers to the reunion of one of TV's most hilariously contemptuous couples!
  — Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2023
• Trump didn’t go for broad appeal Fabrizio and his allies were openly contemptuous of efforts—in the primary and then the general—to reach more voters.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
• Alexander is a hostile cipher, a curt, dismissive bully whose contemptuous behavior on their wedding night is a shock to Katherine and to us, as well.
  — Kenneth Turan, Detroit Free Press, 27 July 2017
• What happened to the idea that art and culture should be a contemptuous refuge from the mainstream, as opposed to this lickspittle, running dog accommodation to the mainstream?
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 3 June 2022
• The man didn’t catch Serena’s contemptuous expression, however, too busy peeling bills from a money clip and pressing them into his date’s hand.
  — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026