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
No person has a right to treat another with contemptuousness unless he knows him to deserve it.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage
If the pastor took you for a courtier, I reverence him for his contemptuousness.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage
Tannhäuser springs to his feet, the old contemptuousness toward these companions,—compends of density, conventionality, and hypocrisy!—curving his lip.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall
