He said in that particular mildly contemptuous way he always spoke to her, "You will marry here."

A cold smile rested on his lips, then went its transient and contemptuous way.

Of course, I've heard of the contemptuous way he alludes to me.

By that I mean we just wouldn't put up with the contemptuous way in which electorates in these euro states are treated.

It originated as a contemptuous way of saying one doesn't want to hear what the person who is speaking is saying.

He was amused at the contemptuous way she referred to 'this Bonaparte'.

But from the contemptuous way Ortega said it, he knew it wasn't complimentary.

In the meeting's aftermath, the timers became a symbol of the authoritarian, contemptuous way he had treated shareholders.

I was looking upon this in a contemptuous way.

You saw a moment ago the degrading and contemptuous way he teased us with the bars of soap.