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contemptuous
adjective
con‧temp‧tu‧ous
showing that you think someone or something deserves no respect
:
a contemptuous glance
contemptuous of
He was
openly contemptuous
of his father.
—
contemptuously
adverb
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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