Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Disposition to contempt; expression of contempt; insolence; scornfulness; contumeliousness; disdain.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
contemptuous
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the manifestation of scorn and contempt
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Mr. KRASNY: I think there's a lot of contemptuousness toward religion from many of the atheists.
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Mr. KRASNY: I think there's a lot of contemptuousness toward religion from many of the atheists.
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Mr. KRASNY: I think there's a lot of contemptuousness toward religion from many of the atheists.
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Mr. KRASNY: I think there's a lot of contemptuousness toward religion from many of the atheists.
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In a voice full of told-you-so contemptuousness, she says,“Bill said you might react this way.”
Loved, Stupid billy robinson 2010
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But despite his often contemptuousness, he had a love of his students.
Whoopi Goldberg to Sister Act to Pedophile Priest to Mother Theresa 2009
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This has more to do with Pandora's "gifts" of intolerance, racism, sexism, antipathy and contemptuousness.
Bil Browning: Pandora's Box: The National Equality March 2009
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Whereas the Secretary of State, too, was always bumbling over herself to find the right "diplomatic" words, here -- with her guard down -- she is suddenly perfectly articulate, if also impressively contemptuousness (in this environment of otherwise higher learning).
Michael Shaw: Reading The Pictures: Condi ... Beyond The Fourth Grade 2009
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But, despite his frequent contemptuousness, he had a love for his students.
Whoopi Goldberg to Sister Act to Pedaphile Priest to Mother Theresa 2009
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One of the real contributions of Relational Life Therapy is the focus on what is technically called "grandiosity" or what is known in the vernacular as pride or ego, which is a state of contemptuousness, feeling better-than, superior or above the rules.
Terry Real: Obama vs. Rev. Wright: The Wrongness of Righteousness 2008
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