Sentence examples for contemptuous reply from inspiring English sources

"Chi?" was his contemptuous reply.

My acquaintance looked off into the distance, and with an air both sad and contemptuous replied, "Yes, it is the old dirigisme".

"It's black," Rasheed replies with a contemptuous stare.

An alert reporter followed up with "Don't you mean contemptuous?" To which the quick-thinking diplomat replied, "That, too".

His response was borderline contemptuous.

But contemptuous?

Joyce was contemptuous of psychoanalysis.

Salmond was openly contemptuous.

He was contemptuous.

Are you contemptuous of families?

Gregory is contemptuous of the RSPB.