Sentence examples for contemptuous references from inspiring English sources

And he gets contemptuous references to his merely "emotional appeals" on the issue, to his talk, on Thursday, of "shame on us".

But her contemptuous reference to the notorious Baby P case in Haringey is a measure of her angry despair at the conventions attached to mainstream social services.

One venerable conjecture was that it began as a contemptuous reference to papal edicts known as bulls (from the bulla, or seal, appended to the document).

She is especially contemptuous of what she once called "the fashionista turban/fringe showing, camel hump hijabis," a derogatory reference to women in loosely-worn headscarves, with their camel-like "hump" of hair protruding beneath.

But contemptuous?

His response was borderline contemptuous.

"Chi?" was his contemptuous reply.

Joyce was contemptuous of psychoanalysis.

Salmond was openly contemptuous.

He was contemptuous.

Are you contemptuous of families?