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contemptuousness - definition and meaning
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from The Century Dictionary.
noun
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun
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noun contemptuous
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noun
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Mr. KRASNY: I think there's a lot of contemptuousness toward religion from many of the atheists.
Agnostic Michael Krasny Has 'Spiritual Envy' 2010
Mr. KRASNY: I think there's a lot of contemptuousness toward religion from many of the atheists.
Agnostic Michael Krasny Has 'Spiritual Envy' 2010
Mr. KRASNY: I think there's a lot of contemptuousness toward religion from many of the atheists.
Agnostic Michael Krasny Has 'Spiritual Envy' 2010
Mr. KRASNY: I think there's a lot of contemptuousness toward religion from many of the atheists.
Agnostic Michael Krasny Has 'Spiritual Envy' 2010
In a voice full of told-you-so contemptuousness , she says,“Bill said you might react this way.”
Loved, Stupid billy robinson 2010
But despite his often contemptuousness , he had a love of his students.
Whoopi Goldberg to Sister Act to Pedophile Priest to Mother Theresa 2009
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
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
But, despite his frequent contemptuousness , he had a love for his students.
Whoopi Goldberg to Sister Act to Pedaphile Priest to Mother Theresa 2009
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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