contemptuously

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for contemptuously
Adverb
  • As if the question arose, thought Leonora scornfully.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Bella, in her podcast conversation with Trinny Woodall, recalled that once, at a village post office, a shop assistant disdainfully called her a hippie.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • To protect her face, Campoy used her arm, which the squirrel clawed viciously.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
  • In this week's PEOPLE cover story, the matriarch, 80, recalls the scary moment a camel viciously attacked Navarone (her son with ex Marco Garibaldi) during a visit to a friend's animal sanctuary in California's San Fernando Valley.
    Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Doxxing involves sharing someone’s personal or private information maliciously.
    Julia Marnin, Sacbee.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Google and other firms that have delved deeply into generative AI employ a number of techniques to prevent AI from acting maliciously.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
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“Contemptuously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contemptuously. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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