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
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 Alexander Leighton
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
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
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