CONTEMPTUOUSLY in a Sentence

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1. Alexey Alexandrovitch smiled contemptuously.
2. He smiled contemptuously, and flung down the telegram.
3. He's openly contemptuous of all the major political parties.
4. He bowed, shrugging his shoulders, and smiling contemptuously.
5. The diners were intimidated by contemptuous manner of the waiter.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONTEMPTUOUSLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
contemptuously
 ad.  without respect; in a disdainful manner
Classic Sentence: (80 in 6 pages)
1  "You live in West Egg," she remarked contemptuously.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
2  She laughed contemptuously, pushed me out, and locked the gate upon me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
3  The otherwise immovable Miss Murdstone laughed contemptuously in one short syllable.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
4  She noticed that when questioning her about her family, Madame Stahl had smiled contemptuously, which was not in accord with Christian meekness.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 33
5  Getting up and walking about the room, he glanced again at the portrait, frowned, and smiled contemptuously.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 14
6  He was equable and not cringing with his superiors, was free and ingratiating in his behavior with his equals, and was contemptuously indulgent with his inferiors.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 1
7  His brow was lowering, and his eyes stared darkly before him, avoiding her eyes; his mouth was tightly and contemptuously shut.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 4
8  Alexey Alexandrovitch smiled contemptuously.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 12
9  He smiled contemptuously, and flung down the telegram.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 17
10  Golenishtchev had been contemptuously indifferent to the tone taken by Vronsky.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 7
11  He looked at her sternly when she came in, and smiled contemptuously when she said she had been unwell.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 20
12  He bowed, shrugging his shoulders, and smiling contemptuously.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 15
13  To the gin-shop, he added contemptuously, turning slightly towards the coachman, as though he would appeal to him.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
14  After listening to such a reply one day, Bazarov shrugged his shoulders contemptuously and turned away, while the peasant sauntered slowly homewards.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  I remained angrily and contemptuously silent and would not answer him.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: III
Example Sentence:
1  The diners were intimidated by contemptuous manner of the waiter.
2  When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark; And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark; But, when the tide rises and sharks are around.
3  He was very contemptuous of 'popular' writers, whom he described as having no talent.
4  He's openly contemptuous of all the major political parties.
5  Hiddleston is too amiable to convey the full contemptuous hauteur of the great commander who cannot speak of the common people without complaining about their breath.