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 Translation for 'contemptuously' from English to Spanish
SYNO contemptuously | contumeliously | disdainfully | ...
desdeñosamente {adv}contemptuously
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Translation for 'contemptuously' from English to Spanish

contemptuously
desdeñosamente {adv}
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Usage Examples English
  • In Tom Brown's "Letters from the Dead to the Living", Staggins is described as "bandy legged and contemptuously regarded".
  • The sky clears and the Priest returns thanks to Heaven, but Nisia looks contemptuously at Candaules and seeks consolation from her women.
  • The play ends with the ghost of Okiku rising from the well, Tetsuzan staring at her contemptuously.
  • Clayton McAllister, Miss Love’s former fiancé from Texas, shows up one day and tries to persuade her to leave with him. He kisses her, but she sends him away contemptuously after kissing him.
  • Another possible origin may stem from loggers' slang, where "hoosier" referred contemptuously to an untrained, inept, or slack worker.

  • Hama contemptuously brought Starkad to his knees with a blow by his fist, but Starkad rose up and cut Hama to death.
  • Logan would not let Rose tell him about his past, which he had forgotten anyway. Malone steals Rose's few belongings, and contemptuously burns her diary which contains the truth of Logan's past.
  • The Embassy of Ruy González de Clavijo at the beginning of the 15th century to Samarkand, capital of the Emir Timur empire, better known in the West as Tamerlane (which in Persian means, contemptuously, "Timur the Lame"), represents a historical milestone of relations between Spain and Uzbekistan that is still referred to in bilateral contacts.
  • Lydia is enraged by the puncturing of her romantic dreams, and spurns Jack contemptuously.
  • This expression points contemptuously to the position of the minister of the court. The Jerusalem Bible distinguishes two separate oracles against Shebna: verses 15-18 and, later, verses 19–23.

  • Towards the end of its life the building was rather contemptuously referred to as “that old hut” but at the time it was built, was a very big undertaking for a small club.
  • Published in 1910, Patrick Weston Joyce's work "English as We Speak it in Ireland", defines a "shoneen" as "a gentleman in a small way: a would-be gentleman who puts on superior airs", noting that the word is always "used contemptuously".
  • Hiring of replacement workers — contemptuously known as "scabs" by striking workers — began apace, with the emergency conscripts from the ranks of management returned to their jobs as rapidly as the quantity of new hires allowed.
  • Vladimir Putin contemptuously referred to the white ribbons used by Russian protesters, comparing them to condoms being used as a symbol of the fight against AIDS.
  • contemptuously in a description of the 'soft' Thallus.

  • The bird is tame and unsuspecting and the term "dotterel" has been applied contemptuously to mean an old fool.
  • From his home in South Africa, Gaelic-poet Duncan Livingstone contemptuously mocked the collapse of the British Empire after World War II with the satirical Gaelic poem, "Feasgar an Duine Ghil" ("The Evening of the White Man").
  • During the War of the Pacific (1879–1883) Peruvians were contemptuously referred to as "cholos" by Chilean officers.
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