contemptuousness

How To Use contemptuousness In A Sentence

• But despite his often contemptuousness, he had a love of his students. Whoopi Goldberg to Sister Act to Pedophile Priest to Mother Theresa
• In a voice full of told-you-so contemptuousness, she says,“Bill said you might react this way.” Loved, Stupid
• This apolitical predisposition to mock precisely the kinds of people who'll actually pay to watch this kind of film is the height of contemptuousness.
• In fact, far from the love of esteem being grounds for disesteem, a total disregard of others’ opinions seems to reveal in a person a certain contemptuousness of others, a characteristic that is itself disestimable.
• First, women should try to present their complaints in a calm way: Research shows that men are more likely to listen if their partners tone down hostility and avoid contemptuousness.
• 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
• Their contemptuousness colors the debate anyway, especially in the press.
• His reaction is to confront John, who encouraged this evangelistic initiative, with the racist and contemptuousness of its approach.
• 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
• every subordinate sensed his contemptuousness and hated him in return