contemptuousness

But was that innate contemptuousness the real reason for that suicidal attempt?

Moreover I remembered sensitively his contemptuousness of manner to me at my last interview in his office.

I thought I noticed just a trace of contemptuousness in that speech, something quite unlike Yamoda.

Matron preferred not to accept his invitation to join in a professional contemptuousness of a fusspot hospital secretary and looked blankly back.

But now, having stabbed him with the contemptuousness of her proposal of marriage, she felt she had wronged him and had to make it right.

For all his private contemptuousness and fury at liberals, President Richard M. Nixon was careful not to publicly denounce the prevailing public will.

I do not know what another person would have done, but at this point I gave up; that cast-iron indifference, that tranquil contemptuousness, conquered me, and I struck my colors.

The main focus of the novel is Elsa, who being a mestiza of Spanish descent, was the representation of arrogance, selfishness, and contemptuousness of the Filipino lower-class.

But Sir James, thoroughly stung by the contemptuousness of Edgeworth's disbelief in the family ghost, encouraged the notion now that the colonel was to bear me company in that vigil.

The very best form of recycling, he decided, with a slight tightening to one corner of his mouth that would have become a smile if his contemptuousness had not stanched his sense of humor.

It results in psychological contemptuousness and denial about one's "blackness" and is worsened by a feeling that black people are responsible for a disproportionate amount of the crime in the country which the person resides.

According to Dr. Girdner, the symptoms of Newyorkitis include "haste, rudeness, restlessness, arrogance, contemptuousness, excitability, anxiety, pursuit of novelty and of grandeur, pretensions of omniscience, and therefore prescience, which of course undermines any pleasure taken in novelty."

Sometimes their reason- at other times their prejudices or superstitions: often their social affections, not seldom their antisocial ones, their envy or jealousy, their arrogance or contemptuousness: but most commonly their desires or fears for themselves- their legitimate or illegitimate self-interest.