contemptuous

Borrowed from Latin contemptus or from contempt +‎ -uous.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kənˈtɛmp.tʃu.əs/, /kənˈtɛmp.tju.əs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kənˈtɛmp.tʃu.əs/

contemptuous (comparative more contemptuous, superlative most contemptuous)

1. Showing contempt; expressing disdain; showing a lack of respect.

   I don't know that guy, but he just gave me a contemptuous look.

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:

     The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?

• disdainful

• respectful

• contemptuously

• contemn
• contempt