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contemptuousness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur, high-handedness, lordliness |
| Derivation | contemptuous |
every subordinate sensed his contemptuousness and hated him in return.
Examples of contemptuousness
contemptuousness
There is an awful contemptuousness in his bearing.
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That's an excellent observation, evoking not only the contemptuousness of our culture, but also its justification, the illusion that it's all a big in-joke.
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He looked Murphy over, his stained shirt and unclean fingernails, and it was hard not to notice the brittle contemptuousness with which he regarded the older man.
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- The manifestation of scorn and contempt; "every subordinate sensed his contemptuousness and hated him in return"
- Contempt, not classified among Paul Ekman's six basic emotions of anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise, is a mixture of disgust and anger. The word originated in 1393, from the Latin word contemptus meaning "scorn". It is the past participle of contemnere and from com- intensive prefix + temnere "to slight, scorn". The origin is uncertain. Contemptuous appeared in 1529.
- The state of being contemptuous
