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

His brother was moved to no little mirth, but did not indulge in such savage contemptuousness as distinguished the narrator.

From Denzil Quarrier by Gissing, George

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

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 Ward, Adolphus William, Sir

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