You want to tie it to a few key words that you can repeat in a derogatory, contemptuous tone of voice, over and over, until the very signifier evokes such a feeling of loathing in your audience that anyone associated with it is contaminated.
The driver threw a contemptuous look back in his direction.
In questioning Hagel during the nominee's confirmation hearing, he took a surprisingly, audaciously contemptuous tone.
To sum it up: a) the jeering, contemptuous tone of these two writers is becoming all too familiar, b) it's becoming less and less representative of a growing number of people that they, explicitly or otherwise, purport to stand for, and c) their responses are bullshit.
Another thing: quit saying in that contemptuous tone that economic articles don't interest me.
But Wang's contemptuous tone grated, especially when he attacked the literature professor turned human-rights activist Liu Xiaobo.
The Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2007) and Boumediene (2008) cases clearly owe something of their contemptuous tone to the failed nature of the Bush Presidency.
More than his contemptuous tone, however, it was Trump's stances on issues such as homeland security, immigration, treatment of minorities, and women's reproductive rights or his attacks on the press that shocked and awed.
By those lights, Obama, if nominated, is almost certainly destined to lose unless he can suddenly reverse the trend that his own dismissive language and his supporters' contemptuous tone has accelerated during the primaries.
We have to speak to them and, most of all, listen to them rather than talking about them in the most fearful and contemptuous tones.
Channels like Iqraa, Al-Resala or Majd TV — most of them financed by Saudi conservatives — tend to feature Koranic reading, wagging fingers, overlong beards and men speaking in contemptuous tones about sin, redemption and the dangers of the West.
