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
There was little need for him to assume the frigid contemptuousness of Mrs. Gurley's manner: his mere presence, the very unseeingness of his gaze, inspired awe.
From The Getting of Wisdom by Richardson, Henry Handel
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 Benson, Arthur Christopher
