Sentence examples for contemptuous talk from inspiring English sources

Mention the party that has run Mexico since the 1920's and they respond with contemptuous talk about its legacy of graft and fraud.

But they are too scared of the reaction of the press to say this in public.Rail experts are increasingly contemptuous, talking of "cowardice".

– contemptuous when told Z Talking quietly, then v loudly Y Repeating the wrong bit A Telling people to do what they'll do anyway & what they know A Wrong end of stick through eye of needle X Anger at simple questions B Whining – I'm old, on scrap-heap Y Punning – dud spoonerisms Y Polysyllabic facetiousness B Lying about what's happened, whose side was on in argt.

Everson is the more outspoken, contemptuous indignation evident as she talks about the way vulnerable women are failed, impassioned as she describes inheriting her values from her grandfather, a docker in Newport, south Wales.

It's a good accent for a cop — contemptuous, authoritative, and intolerant of back talk.

Michael doesn't think so – he dismisses talk of Stalinism with a contemptuous wave.

At another point, she dismissed speculation that she was discontent with a husband so contemptuous of women as being the idle talk of celebrities, "or people, they think they're celebrities"—a dig at those she sees as B-listers.

At another point, she dismissed speculation that she was discontent with a husband so contemptuous of women as being the idle talk of celebrities, "or people, they think they're celebrities"—a dig at those she sees as B-listers.

A contemptuous duplicity, a meanness, has entered his talk on the stump — so much so that it seems obvious that, in the drive for victory, he is willing to replicate some of the same underhanded methods that defeated him eight years ago in South Carolina.

Talking about the story, my tone becomes contemptuous.

There was nothing contemptuous or condescending in what Streep said, whereas Fox News/Breitbart/AM Talk Radio is all contempt, all the time.