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Some artists are contemptuous of criticism.
My father is contemptuous of drunkards.
He is contemptuous of his boss's narrow mind.
She is contemptuous of your ambition.
The copies sent to physicians were mostly unacknowledged-received in cold, if not contemptuous, silence.
' Whereat David waved his hands in a sort of contemptuous wonder.
He was really fond of his uncle, though in a contemptuous superior sort of manner, despising his religious and honourable scruples as mere simplicity of mind.
His sneering manner towards her sister had filled her with disgust and indignation, and he had, in those days, been equally contemptuous towards herself-besides which she was aware of his share in her capture by Balchenburg, and whispers had not respected the manner in which his silence had fostered the slanders that had broken Margaret's heart.
Those occasions were few indeed, for the captain had shown, in some curious, curt fashion, that he did not like the boy Brian; and Brian, for his part, was laughingly contemptuous of the captain.
Some of them were inclined at first to be rough and bold, but the atmosphere calmed them; they either came no more or if they came they were quiet; some of them affected a superior and contemptuous air, not uncommon with "young persons" when they are jealous or envious, but this is a mood easily cured; some of them were frivolous, but these were also easily subdued.
The baby was presented at the font, received a contemptuous name, squealed a little, no doubt, when he felt the cold water, and then-then-nothing more.
There is, indeed, no courtly landlord to bow, like a plumper Sir Charles Grandison, over the silver salver on which you have laid your gold; but there are gilt-edged porters, and moustached lift-men, and a regiment of buttony boys who float round the departing guest with well-timed assiduity; and the Suisse at the door, as he eyes our modest luggage with contemptuous glare, looks quite prepared, if need be, to extort his guerdon by physical force.
" But not long ago, in "Marriage", he was contemptuous of "Doctor Quiller [Schiller] of Oxford," for "ignoring Bergson and fulminating a preposterous insular Pragmatism.
This gave me power to keep them back and to look at her: so, she gave a contemptuous toss-but with a sense, I thought, of having made too sure that I was so wounded-and left me.
But I never thought there was anything low and small in my keeping away from Joe, because I knew she would be contemptuous of him.
Tink was very contemptuous of the rest of the house, as indeed was perhaps inevitable, and her chamber, though beautiful, looked rather conceited, having the appearance of a nose permanently turned up.
The mare soon after my entrance rose from her mat, and coming up close, after having nicely observed my hands and face, gave me a most contemptuous look; and turning to the horse, I heard the word Yahoo often repeated betwixt them; the meaning of which word I could not then comprehend, although it was the first I had learned to pronounce.
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