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 β 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
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 Sinclair Lewis
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 Arthur Christopher Benson
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
