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Synonyms for contemptuousness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kuhn-temp-choo-uhs |
| Phonetic Transcription : kənˈtɛmp tʃu əs |
Top 10 synonyms for contemptuousness Other synonyms for the word contemptuousness
- abuse
- ageism
- airs
- antipathy
- apartheid
- arrogance
- audacity
- aversion
- back talk
- bad opinion
- bluster
- braggadocio
- brass
- brazenness
- cheek
- chutzpah
- conceit
- conceitedness
- contempt
- contemptuousness
- contumely
- crust
- despisal
- despisement
- despite
- detriment
- disdainfulness
- disgust
- dislike
- disparagement
- displeasure
- disregard
- disrelish
- effrontery
- egotism
- enmity
- foregone conclusion
- gall
- guff
- hardihood
- haughtiness
- hauteur
- high-handedness
- hubris
- illiberality
- imperiousness
- impertinence
- impudence
- incivility
- injustice
- insolence
- insubordination
- jaundiced eye
- jeering
- lip
- loftiness
- lordliness
- mindset
- misjudgment
- mockery
- narrow-mindedness
- nerve
- offensiveness
- one-sidedness
- ostentation
- overbearance
- overbearingness
- partiality
- pertness
- pique
- pomposity
- pompousness
- preconceived notion
- preconception
- prejudgment
- prepossession
- presumption
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- pride
- pridefulness
- priggishness
- proudness
- racism
- repugnance
- revulsion
- ridicule
- rudeness
- sarcasm
- sass
- sauce
- scoffing
- scornfulness
- self-importance
- self-love
- sexism
- slant
- slight
- smugness
- sneer
- snobbishness
- spleen
- sport
- superbity
- superciliousness
- superiority
- swagger
- taunting
- teasing
- tilt
- twist
- umbrage
- uncivility
- unfairness
- vanity
- warp
- xenophobia
Définition of contemptuousness
Origin :- 1590s, from Latin contemptus (see contempt). Related: Contemptuously.
- As in insolence : noun boldness, disrespect
- As in arrogance : noun exaggerated self-opinion
- As in prejudice : noun belief without basis, information; intolerance
- As in scorn : noun contempt toward something
- As in loftiness : noun arrogance
- As in lordliness : noun arrogance
- As in overbearingness : noun arrogance
- As in pridefulness : noun arrogance
- As in proudness : noun arrogance
- As in superciliousness : noun arrogance
- As in haughtiness : noun air of supremacy
- As in hubris : noun arrogance
- If the pastor took you for a courtier, I reverence him for his contemptuousness.
- Extract from : « Imaginary Conversations and Poems » by Walter Savage Landor
- He looked through her with a contemptuousness such as she could not have imagined.
- Extract from : « Main Street » by Sinclair Lewis
- She muttered rather than spoke these few words, but with a contemptuousness of inflection that was most expressive.
- Extract from : « The Faith Doctor » by Edward Eggleston
- For Tobe an attitude of contemptuousness appeared to be the indicated mood.
- Extract from : « Ladies and Gentlemen » by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
- By a slow facial manoeuvre, Mr. Neal contrived to make his cigar look out upon the world with contemptuousness unbearable.
- Extract from : « Queed » by Henry Sydnor Harrison
- One fault of character, I think, he may perhaps have had much trouble with—I mean bitterness and contemptuousness.
- Extract from : « True Words for Brave Men » by Charles Kingsley
- Moreover I remembered sensitively his contemptuousness of manner to me at my last interview in his office.
- Extract from : « Roughing It » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
- Bossuet could not veil his haughty countenance, and his language is that of asperity and contemptuousness instead of moderation.
- Extract from : « Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 2 » by Henry Hallam
- No person has a right to treat another with contemptuousness unless he knows him to deserve it.
- Extract from : « Imaginary Conversations and Poems » by Walter Savage Landor
- Envy would conceal herself under the shadow and shelter of contemptuousness, but she swells too huge for the den she creeps into.
- Extract from : « Imaginary Conversations and Poems » by Walter Savage Landor
Antonyms for contemptuousness
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