contemptuousness

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• The French make contemptuous assessments of the local cuisine.

• But then he gave the game away, with a turn of phrase that promptly made its way into headlines and contemptuous write-ups.

• Many were elitists who, despite their opposition to tyranny, remained contemptuous of the masses.

• With the money came the filth, and the contemptuous lewdness you see in the film are based on actual claims in the book.

• You quickly become bored by and contemptuous of everyone, up to the president himself.

• He called upon the Order to show their title-deeds, but was met with a contemptuous refusal.

• Junot and Ney were openly contemptuous, Regnier hung back, and was three weeks late in his arrangements.

• But his lips were hard pressed and his eyes became suddenly contemptuous, then smiling.

• They did so, and Crane looked up at the fat hardware man with eyes that were not quite so contemptuous.

• At this period Tchaikovskys attitude to his father and his aunts was slightly egotistical and contemptuous.