contemptuousness
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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
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 Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson) Ward
But, admirable as it is, this new picture of prison-life and prison-sentiment has an undercurrent of bitterness, indeed, almost of contemptuousness, foreign to the best part of Dickens’s genius.
From Dickens English Men of Letters by Sir Adolphus William Ward
Paul was quick to detect a note of admiration underlying the superficial contemptuousness of the words.
From The Fortunate Youth by William John Locke
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