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  • Contemptuous of people less gifted than they.
  • Contemptuous ease.
  • He has been openly contemptuous of jamal throughout the new hearing.
  • We become contemptuous of other believers who we decide are not " walking the talk " as well as we think we are.
  • Contemptuous of law, environmental regulations, public health and corporate responsibility.
  • Contemptuous attitude to science is a largely european phenomenon, he continued.
  • In fact, he had always been rather contemptuous of those who espoused it.
  • Contemptuous of the idea that the cabinet was an appropriate forum in which to make decisions.
  • Contemptuous manner, said: " what utter rot.
  • They find a dark pleasure in their ability to be so contemptuous of them.
  • Contemptuous of big government, and instinctively libertarian.
  • Contemptuous terms.
  • With the set poised at 4-4, the 24-year-old produced an array of superb returns and groundstrokes to break serve with almost contemptuous ease.
  • Contemptuous of the views of the most vulnerable sections of our community.
  • Contemptuous tones.
  • I do not think that lizzie distrusted my sincerity, but it was evident that she was both bewildered and a little contemptuous.
  • Contemptuous of the way in which bill clinton had used foreign affairs to distract attention from dry-cleaning bills.
  • Contemptuous treatment, the trade unions have supported the rule changes of recent years which have centralized power and eroded party democracy.
  • The general problem is that the new labor turn of mind is frankly contemptuous of the past.

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