adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
openly
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Until recently, Dole was openly contemptuous of the supply side economics espoused by Kemp and other conservatives.
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He was openly contemptuous of supply-side theories.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a contemptuous attitude
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was openly contemptuous of supply-side theories.
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In this detention centre, contemptuous and inhuman attitudes have hardened into set rules.
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It is frequently instilled at a delicate age, as a result of the internalization of a contemptuous voice, usually parental.
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Remove Goblin casualties with a deliberately contemptuous gesture or casual lack of concern if it makes you feel better.
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She would even have preferred more of his contemptuous accusations to this present chilling remoteness.
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Successful engineering students tended to be contemptuous of the work habits of lesser mortals.
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The clerk throws me a contemptuous look, then does the search.
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Watching that fair, contemptuous face he thought how well he knew the type from his own school.