Crossword-Solution: CONTEMPTUOUS 12 letters, 206 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

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Contemptuous a. Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain;
scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful.

We have 206 clues for the answer “CONTEMPTUOUS”

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calumnious 33 answers
depreciatory 34 answers
hubristic 35 answers
depreciating 36 answers
Egotistical 37 answers
taunting 37 answers
vainglorious 39 answers
fatheaded 40 answers
narcissistic 41 answers
Belittling. 42 answers
Egotistic 44 answers
Greater 48 answers
unparliamentary 48 answers
snarly 48 answers
anathematising 49 answers
calumniating 49 answers
comminatory 49 answers
denunciatory 49 answers
fulminatory 49 answers
humiliating 49 answers
imprecatory 49 answers
libelling 49 answers
maledictory 49 answers
reviling 49 answers
shaming 49 answers
Proud ___. 49 answers
damnatory 50 answers
injuring 50 answers
Irreverent 50 answers
intolerant 51 answers
Vituperative. 52 answers
censorious 52 answers
debasing 52 answers
depreciative 52 answers
Domineering 53 answers
Maligning. 53 answers
Maleficent 53 answers
Rancorous 53 answers
Scurrilous 54 answers
overbearing 54 answers
Boastful 54 answers
derogative 55 answers
growling 55 answers
Vitriolic 56 answers
detracting 56 answers
pejorative 56 answers
deprecatory 58 answers
disapproving 58 answers
causing 59 answers
Uncultured 60 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CONTEMPTUOUS (5)

Why hast thou, _Satan_, broke the bounds prescrib’d To thy transgressions, and disturbd the charge Of others, who approve not to transgress By thy example, but have power and right To question thy bold entrance on this place; Imploi’d it seems to violate sleep, and those Whose dwelling God hath planted here in bliss? To whom thus _Satan_ with contemptuous brow.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
They would take neither the glow of passion nor the tenderness of sentiment, but retained all the rigidity of dead corpses, and stared me in the face with a fixed and ghastly grin of contemptuous defiance.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
The elder was more crafty; he asked Miguel Ramas whether there would be “plenty more girls like that _a_ Salt Lake, maybee?” Silvo, overhearing, gave his brother a contemptuous glance.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
With that perfect, somewhat affected gallantry which characterised his every movement, he opened the coffee-room door for her, and made her the most approved and elaborate bow, which the fashion of the time dictated, as she sailed out of the room without bestowing on him more than a passing, slightly contemptuous glance.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993
There’s another shop just round the corner.” “Make it go!” cried Dixey, with a most contemptuous expression, as if the very idea were impossible to be conceived.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993

Quotes with CONTEMPTUOUS (3)

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
E. L. Doctorow
Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.
Fulton J. Sheen Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
It is of no use mincing the matter; Dr John Marsh, after being regarded by his friends at home as hopelessly unimpressible — in short, an absolute woman-hater — had found his fate on a desolate isle of the Southern seas, he had fallen — nay, let us be just — had jumped over head and ears in love with Pauline Rigonda! Dr Marsh was no sentimental die-away noodle who, half-ashamed, half-proud of his condition, displays it to the semi-contemptuous world. No; after disbelieving fo…
R.M. Ballantyne The Island Queen: Dethroned by Fire and Water: A Tale of the Southern Hemisphere