contemptuousness

Example Sentences

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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

There was but one way in which Diane could have put herself right with him: she could have swept the charge aside, with a serene contemptuousness of denial.

From The Inner Shrine by King, Basil

Moreover I remembered sensitively his contemptuousness of manner to me at my last interview in his office.

From Roughing It, Part 8. by Twain, Mark

Pomposity is sin, because it is egoism; self-complacency and contemptuousness are sin for the same reason.

From The New Theology by Campbell, R. J. (Reginald John)

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 Leighton, Alexander