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Discover LudwigThe phrase "contemptuous about" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means feeling or expressing deep dislike or disdain for someone or something. Example: The politician's speech was filled with contemptuous remarks about his opponent's policies.
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And they are contemptuous about claims of price manipulation.
Herb, in particular, can sound nearly contemptuous about how other philanthropies go about their business.
Sevigny is less contemptuous about Clara's initial moral rigidity than one might have expected.
Leon Panetta, then CIA chief and now Defense Secretary, was contemptuous about the time spent by the White House debating troop reinforcements.
But to millions of working-class English people (Scotland and Wales are well served by their respective patriotisms), it matters a lot – and they feel the left is contemptuous about it.
He argues that there was "something contemptuous" about David Cameron's attitude to the TV leader debates, comparing him to a "petulant child who doesn't want to do his homework coming up with more and more excuses as to why it can't happen".
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Since Franklin Graham is a popular Christian evangelist, he should really think carefully about spreading casual and contemptuous misinformation about non-Christian religions (Sunday: "Questions for: Franklin Graham," July 12).
In 1987 Time magazine reported that George Bush Sr had responded to well-meaning advice about his presidential campaign's shortcomings with a contemptuous remark about "the vision thing".
Now there are signs everywhere promoting new construction, even as Israel and Syria are again making noises -- some positive, some contemptuous -- about maybe negotiating anew.
Mention the party that has run Mexico since the 1920's and they respond with contemptuous talk about its legacy of graft and fraud.
The district court's reasoning amounts to a virtual presumption that petitioners intended to express a contemptuous message about the flag (a crucial element of the offense) based on nothing more than the bare act of burning.
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