Sentence examples for contemptuous behavior from inspiring English sources

They had exhibited "lawlessness" and "contemptuous behavior"; they had "scoffed at my authority".

"I have heard that all corrupt officials who are summoned to the investigation facility have their contemptuous behavior exposed," Mr. Chu wrote.

Contemptuous behavior includes eye-rolling, sarcasm, hostile humor and name-calling.

It is often such blindness, negative emotions, and stereotypes that result in disrespectful, punitive, or contemptuous behavior towards African Americans and failure to do or say anything about it when it happens even though the same folks may actually love Obama, Oprah, and Will Smith.

These independent women are contemptuous of such behavior.

"I have never known a man so rigorous in the satisfaction of his appetites, so comfortable in the brazenness of his behavior and so contemptuous of the moral censure of others," the narrator says of Coolidge.

Being "neglectful, indifferent, contemptuous, asexual, demeaning, insulting" is not loving behavior and is often as -- and sometimes more -- damaging as physical abuse (and there are some who argue that infidelity is abuse).

"Instead of being contrite, the leader was contemptuous," she said, adding, "I wouldn't have done this absent his inappropriate behavior".

But contemptuous?

His response was borderline contemptuous.

"Chi?" was his contemptuous reply.