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She was nearly always contemptuous of everything men thought or did.
He seemed contemptuous of their presence, and with good reason.
Not that he'd been any more contemptuous this time than he always was.
The dark face opposite her took on a contemptuous look.
And perhaps you can try not to be too contemptuous of the old man who was, after all, your father's choice.
She made a small contemptuous sound and pointed at the door.
A year ago he had been openly contemptuous of such things.
Or maybe it was contemptuous of him to style me this way.
But had he not been cruel and contemptuous to her?
It had been sent here as a contemptuous challenge to the law.
When it comes to noise, anything contemptuous of the public seems to go.
He was, if she wanted to be honest with herself, contemptuous of her.
Then, sometimes, the father would seem to feel the contemptuous hatred of his children.
Since then, the news media has become steadily more contemptuous.
At first he'd been contemptuous of the purpose behind all his work and travel.
He made a contemptuous wave at the money on the coffee table.
This rendered her contemptuous of many men and almost all other women.
Harry made a contemptuous sound and started for the desk.
He was shaken, and that made me even more contemptuous of him.
She looked down at her papers with a contemptuous smile.
On the other hand, the left seems more contemptuous than ever of evangelicals.
She turned to the door and flung it open with one contemptuous move.
She waved a contemptuous hand toward the night, the world beyond her window.
Right now he had on that same contemptuous look Fish wore so often.
In the current hearing he has been openly contemptuous of the defense.