contemptuous

adjective

/kənˈtemptʃuəs/

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单词	contemptuous
释义	contemptuous adjective /kənˈtemptʃuəs/ /kənˈtemptʃuəs/ jump to other results feeling or showing that you have no respect for somebody/something synonym scornful She gave him a contemptuous look. The company has shown a contemptuous disregard for Henry’s complaints. Her voice sounded almost contemptuous. contemptuous of somebody/something He was contemptuous of everything I did. Topics Feelingsc1 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs be sound adverb utterly almost openly … preposition of See full entry Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘despising law and order’): from medieval Latin contemptuosus, from Latin contemptus ‘contempt’, from contemnere, from con- (expressing intensive force) + temnere ‘despise’.
随便看	ill-concealed ill-conceived ill-considered ill-defined ill-disposed illegal illegal_1 illegal_2 illegality illegally illegible illegibly illegitimacy illegitimate illegitimately ill-equipped ill-fated ill-fitting ill-founded ill-gotten ill health ill-health ill humour ill-humour ill-humoured