"manner" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It was originally used in a contemptuous manner to refer to Slav Macedonians, who believed they constituted a distinct ethnic group, separate from their neighbours.
- He merely stood there, watching her in that contemptuous manner, as if she were a child defying authority.
- He and Henry Kissinger, they both speak in this gruff contemptuous manner, like, 'You're probably too stupid to understand this answer, but let me try anyway, Ted.'
- A person who speaks or acts in a manner contemptuous of the Parliament or its members can be tried and, if convicted, imprisoned.
- The prince had a contemptuous manner of treating those very people who, to Vronsky's surprise, turned themselves inside out to supply him with Russian pleasures.
- He summoned the native in a manner brutal and contemptuous, and led the way to the house, mumbling his discontent.
- He stared at us, watched us coming through the rain, and he began to laugh in the most contemptuous manner.
- His faintly contemptuous manner stung, but Forbin held himself back.
- God knows, perhaps this careless, contemptuous manner was one of the causes of his irresistible attraction for the village Dulcineas.
- "When she played in that contemptuous manner, she had this fantastic screen presence."
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