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She glanced at him once with what looked like a hint of contemptuousness and ended without detouring.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

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

He looked through her with a contemptuousness such as she could not have imagined.

From Main Street by Lewis, Sinclair

"Very well," answered Miss Hawtry, but Miss Adair's heart warmed to her as she noted the contemptuousness in her manner directed toward her stage-manager.

From Blue-grass and Broadway by Daviess, Maria Thompson

No person has a right to treat another with contemptuousness unless he knows him to deserve it.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage