Contemptuous

Adjective

 * 1) showing contempt; expressing disdain; showing a lack of respect.
 * I don't know that guy, but he just gave me a contemptuous look.

Derived terms

 * contemptuously

Related terms

 * contempt

Thesaurus
abjuratory, abusive, arrogant, audacious, back-biting, belittling, biggety, bitchy, blackening, blameful, bluff, bold, brash, brassy, brazen, bumptious, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, cavalier, censorious, challenging, cheeky, chutzpadik, clannish, cliquish, cocky, condemnatory, contumelious, crusty, damnatory, daring, declinatory, defamatory, defiant, defying, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, despising, detractory, disdainful, dismissive, disparaging, disregardful, disrespectful, exclusive, execrating, execrative, execratory, facy, flip, flippant, fresh, gally, gratuitous, greatly daring, haughty, impertinent, impudent, insolent, insulting, invective, inveighing, judgmental, libelous, malapert, minimizing, nervy, objurgatory, pejorative, pert, priggish, regardless of consequences, rejective, renunciative, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ridiculing, rude, sassy, saucy, scandalous, scoffing, scornful, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, slighting, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, sneering, sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, supercilious, toploftical, toplofty, uncalled-for, vilifying, vituperative, wise-ass, withering

Translations

 * Arabic: احتقار
 * Bulgarian: надменен, презрителен
 * Chinese:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: halveksuva, halveksiva, halventava, epäkunnioittava
 * Finnish: halveksuva, halveksiva, halventava, epäkunnioittava


 * French: méprisant, dédaigneux
 * Italian: sprezzante, sdegnoso
 * Polish: pogardliwy
 * Russian: пренебрежительный,, презрительный
 * Serbo-Croatian: nadmenost, nadutost, prezrivost