How to pronounce contemptuous
Listen to contemptuous in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
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“contemptuous” in real sentences
84 clips in the index · 4 American · 20 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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be contemptuous of Parliament
UK Parliament · hear it here
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a completely contemptuous kind of way.
RNZ · hear it here
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of being so contemptuous of the court.
The Atlantic · hear it here
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And um he's openly contemptuous of this stuff.
The 92nd Street Y · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of contemptuous. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.