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Contemptuousness   Listen
noun
Contemptuousness  n.  Disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Contemptuousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... would persuade you only that banter, pun, and quibble are the properties of light men and shallow capacities; that genuine humour and true wit require a sound and capacious mind, which is always a grave one. Contemptuousness is not incompatible with them: worthless is that man who feels no contempt for the worthless, and weak who treats their emptiness as a thing of weight. At first it may seem a paradox, but it is perfectly true, that the gravest nations have been the wittiest; and in those nations some ...
— Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor



Words linked to "Contemptuousness" :   haughtiness, hauteur, lordliness, high-handedness



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