Words and phrases that have a meaning related to contemptuous: (150 results)
Often used in the same context:
disdainful, condescending, arrogant, scornful, dismissive, uncouth, insolent, highhanded, contemptible, obsequious, boorish, haughty, callous, supercilious, contumacious, flippant, vindictive, unstatesmanlike, pompous, cynical, censorious, cavalier, unbecoming, insulting, unsympathetic, smug, philistine, disrespectful, pusillanimous, spiteful, tactless, rude, crass, uncomplimentary, indignant, sarcastic, discourteous, obtuse, hypocritical, snobbish, unmannerly, derisive, ungentlemanly, rebarbative, obnoxious, loathsome, sycophantic, snide, uncaring, demeaning, captious, uncharitable, duplicitous, disgraceful, cretinous, impertinent, thuggish, deferential, meanspirited, intemperate, servile, undiplomatic, disloyal, insensitive, antagonistic, intransigent, dishonest, ungrateful, condemnatory, indecorous, imperious, humorless, petulant, sanctimonious, effete, contumelious, blinkered, disobliging, unkind, mendacious, antipathetic, insouciant, dictatorial, solicitous, brusque, spineless, opprobrious, unchivalrous, discomfited, childish, bellicose, vituperative, sneery, puerile, snotty, unprincipled, truculent, accusatory, ignorant, chauvinistic, indifferent, impudent, hostile, pique, absurdity, arbitrary, believe, bitterness, bungling, cheap, contrary, cowardice, craziness, decency, destitute, embezzlement, equivocation, falsehood, falsity, fright, insubordination, luck, disparaging, reproachful, amused, deprecatory, depreciatory, ironical, noncommittal, patronising, sardonic, deprecating, disgusted
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Also try:accent, contempt, defiance, derision, despite, disrespect, flout, maligned, rebelliousness, reviled, scoff, sirrah, sneer, tom, uncle tom, unmaligned, unreviled
— Nouns for contemptuous: smile, attitude, indifference, treatment, look, manner, tone, glance, silence, laugh, pity, more...
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