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Contemptuous

Contemptuous. Denotative Meaning: Feeling or showing deep hatred or disapproval: feeling or showing Contempt Connotative Meaning: Contemptuous usually brings words such as hate, set minded and crime to peoples minds, it also makes people feel scornful of what others may do.

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Contemptuous

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  1. Contemptuous

  2. Denotative Meaning: Feeling or showing deep hatred or disapproval: feeling or showing Contempt • Connotative Meaning: Contemptuous usually brings words such as hate, set minded and crime to peoples minds, it also makes people feel scornful of what others may do. • Synonyms: disdainful, scornful • Related Words: discourteous, disrespectful, despiteful, and hateful

  3. “He owned a fine Kentucky rifle, with a cherry wood stock, and was contemptuous of the bulky carbines most of the troop had adopted” ~ Larry McMurtry, Dead Mans Walk • “Some people are Contemptuous of another race or ethnicity”

  4. Works Cited • http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/12/us/georgia-kkk-highway/ • http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contemptuous • https://www.wordnik.com/words/mock

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