Every subordinate sensed his contemptuousness and hated him in return. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I see the same batshit crazy contemptuousness when I see Palin. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
But despite his often contemptuousness, he had a love of his students. From Wordnik.com. [Whoopi Goldberg to Sister Act to Pedophile Priest to Mother Theresa] Reference
But, despite his frequent contemptuousness, he had a love for his students. From Wordnik.com. [Whoopi Goldberg to Sister Act to Pedaphile Priest to Mother Theresa] Reference
Addington ought to be held in contempt of Congress for just plain contemptuousness. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
Faculty Club, and a chilly contemptuousness in his rhetoric class-room at Leland Stanford, Jr. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mr. Wrenn] Reference
In a voice full of told-you-so contemptuousness, she says,“Bill said you might react this way.”. From Wordnik.com. [Loved, Stupid] Reference
"Merely science fiction facing backwards": that dandyish contemptuousness, that thoughtless sweep. From Wordnik.com. [November 2005] Reference
This has more to do with Pandora's "gifts" of intolerance, racism, sexism, antipathy and contemptuousness. From Wordnik.com. [Bil Browning: Pandora's Box: The National Equality March] Reference
He said the Minister and her department's conduct was "little short of contemptuousness of the people it's supposed to serve". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
I recall to your recollection, too, his eulogy on the Roman centurion, and his constant exposure of the contemptuousness of the. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 12, December, 1889] Reference
She was furious at the contemptuousness of his exit. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
I think civility is as contagious as contemptuousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily News - News] Reference
Here the coupled syllables carried an added sting of contemptuousness. From Wordnik.com. [From Place to Place] Reference
He looked through her with a contemptuousness such as she could not have imagined. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
One naturally wonders if haughtiness, contemptuousness and class arrogance drove this action. From Wordnik.com. [Delaware Watch] Reference
No person has a right to treat another with contemptuousness unless he knows him to deserve it. From Wordnik.com. [Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection] Reference
His unmasked face often reveals a marked contemptuousness for those who don't share his worldview. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Paul was quick to detect a note of admiration underlying the superficial contemptuousness of the words. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunate Youth] Reference
Moreover I remembered sensitively his contemptuousness of manner to me at my last interview in his office. From Wordnik.com. [Roughing It] Reference
"If it's cheapness you want, you'd better go to Bleecker Street," said the woman with a certain contemptuousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him] Reference
She muttered rather than spoke these few words, but with a contemptuousness of inflection that was most expressive. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith Doctor A Story of New York] Reference
“If it's cheapness you want, you'd better go to Bleecker Street,” said the woman with a certain contemptuousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him]
By a slow facial manoeuvre, Mr. Neal contrived to make his cigar look out upon the world with contemptuousness unbearable. From Wordnik.com. [Queed] Reference
And these men and women fall with zealous dreariness or acrid contemptuousness, and radiate discomfort and uneasiness about them. From Wordnik.com. [Escape, and Other Essays] Reference
It will sometimes happen that the insolence of wealth breaks into contemptuousness, or the turbulence of wine requires a vent; and. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II] Reference
Never before had this worthy shown so much insolence and snobbish contemptuousness as on this occasion, but Nejdanov simply ignored him. From Wordnik.com. [Virgin Soil] Reference
Tannhäuser springs to his feet, the old contemptuousness toward these companions, -- compends of density, conventionality, and hypocrisy!. From Wordnik.com. [The Wagnerian Romances] Reference
Please don’t go overboard with your contemptuousness for rationality. From Wordnik.com. [Donor conception - should it be legal for straight couples only?] Reference
Jenna mouthed with ineffable contemptuousness; "he'll have time to write his memoirs, as, one of the dogs did. From Wordnik.com. [Vittoria — Complete] Reference
contemptuousness in, 77. From Wordnik.com. [The Blessing of a B Minus] Reference
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