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contemptuous
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(Adjective) Deserving of being hated; easy to disapprove of.Usage: 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 Man's Walk, 1995
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