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 • 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
He looked through her with a contemptuousness such as she could not have imagined.
From Main Street by Lewis, Sinclair
Paul was quick to detect a note of admiration underlying the superficial contemptuousness of the words.
From The Fortunate Youth by Locke, William John
Tannhäuser springs to his feet, the old contemptuousness toward these companions,—compends of density, conventionality, and hypocrisy!—curving his lip.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall
