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

Here the coupled syllables carried an added sting of contemptuousness.

From From Place to Place by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

Yet, pervading it all, there was revealed an interest—a curiosity—about her that agreed ill with his assumed contemptuousness.

From The Great Miss Driver by Hope, Anthony

This last was uttered with the contemptuousness one always feels toward a mighty government that allows itself to be outdone by corporations or individuals.

From A Republic Without a President and Other Stories by Ward, Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson)

Mittyford had a bald head, neat eye-glasses, a fair family income, a chatty good-fellowship at the Faculty Club, and a chilly contemptuousness in his rhetoric class-room at Leland Stanford, Jr., University.

From Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man by Lewis, Sinclair