She did not sit down but looked at him with a contemptuous smile, waiting for the valet to go.
One of the audience, with a contemptuous remark, took a handful of pebbles to pelt him with.
There seems no reason to accept Gibbon's contemptuous estimate of their social position.
The German aristocracy, as Aeneas Sylvius had noticed, remained for the most part barbarous, addicted to gross pleasures, contemptuous of culture.
Since these combinations have often been as illogical as facile, "eclecticism" has generally acquired a somewhat contemptuous significance.
