as in contempt
open dislike for someone or something considered unworthy of one's concern or respect
a glance filled with unrestrained contemptuousness for the rest of us
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Noun
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With contempt and termination by an unelected billionaire who never served in a uniform in his life.—
Sean Krofssik,
Hartford Courant,
3 Mar. 2025 -
People were simply happy to see each other again, having gone through the final season boycott and reverse boycott together and unified in their disdain for A’s owner John Fisher but with no contempt for the players and coaches who had no choice but to follow their job out of town.—
Jerry McDonald,
The Mercury News,
2 Mar. 2025
Noun
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But, then, genuine misanthropic disdain is part of Verhoeven's tool kit.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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Musk has long voiced disdain for Biden and notably was not invited to the administration's electric vehicle summit in 2021.—
Newsweek,
Newsweek,
7 Mar. 2025
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Democrats, blinded by their hatred of him, have ignored this.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
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Debra Messing, who has produced a new documentary on (horseshoe-theory) antisemitism called October 8, has been one of Hollywood’s few intensely admirable exceptions, calling out anti-Jewish hatred with a fierce constancy over the past 16 months.—
Steven Zeitchik,
The Hollywood Reporter,
1 Mar. 2025
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“Contemptuousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contemptuousness. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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