contemptuousness
Example Sentences
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She glanced at him once with what looked like a hint of contemptuousness and ended without detouring.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
This is arrogant moviemaking: its assumption is that the proles will buy their tickets and march unprotestingly through the fun house no matter how evident is the contemptuousness of the barkers.
From Time Magazine Archive
She muttered rather than spoke these few words, but with a contemptuousness of inflection that was most expressive.
From The Faith Doctor A Story of New York by Eggleston, Edward
And these men and women fall with zealous dreariness or acrid contemptuousness, and radiate discomfort and uneasiness about them.
From Escape, and Other Essays by Benson, Arthur Christopher
Here the coupled syllables carried an added sting of contemptuousness.
From From Place to Place by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
