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
She was furious at the contemptuousness of his exit.
From Main Street by Lewis, Sinclair
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
He looked through her with a contemptuousness such as she could not have imagined.
From Main Street by Lewis, Sinclair
Yet, pervading it all, there was revealed an interest—a curiosity—about her that agreed ill with his assumed contemptuousness.
From The Great Miss Driver by Hope, Anthony
