contemptuousness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for contemptuousness
Noun
  • Trump’s contempt for legal norms and Guantánamo’s legacy of ambiguous legality are thus a fitting match, however disturbing that compatibility may be.
    Miriam Pensack, The Dial, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Franklin and Valley have appealed that contempt of court ruling to the Arkansas Supreme Court.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Some earlier African intellectuals looked at Black America with pity, even disdain.
    Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Monster doesn’t have answers for these questions, just a general disdain for Americans and broad observations about our own cowardice.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Raised under Augusta’s religious terror and hatred for women, Ed tries to hide his penchant for ladies’ underwear and masturbation to no avail.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Not as a land of fear, not as a divisiveness, not of government censorship, not of hatred.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Contemptuousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contemptuousness. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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