contemptuousness

Example Sentences

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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

This marriage with this young Englishman, whom the Frenchman regarded with a tolerant, half-amused contemptuousness for his simplicity and bluntness, would have to be carried through.

From The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo by Brady, Cyrus Townsend

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

Never before had this worthy shown so much insolence and snobbish contemptuousness as on this occasion, but Nejdanov simply ignored him.

From Virgin Soil by Townsend, R. S.

Never shall I forget the look of cold, cruel, malign contemptuousness, with which the ruffian regarded me.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Leighton, Alexander