feeling or showing that you have no respect for somebody/something synonym scornful蔑视的;鄙视的;表示轻蔑的 She gave him a contemptuous look. 她鄙夷地看了他一眼。 The company has shown a contemptuous disregard for Henry’s complaints. 公司对亨利的抱怨漠然视之。 Her voice sounded almost contemptuous. 她的语气近乎轻蔑。 - contemptuous of somebody/something
He was contemptuous of everything I did. 他对我所做的一切都不屑一顾。
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Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘despising law and order’): from medieval Latin contemptuosus, from Latin contemptus ‘contempt’, from contemnere, from con- (expressing intensive force) + temnere ‘despise’.