Contemptuosity
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Contemptuosity is a noun meaning (rare, uncountable) The state of being contemptuous.
Meaning
(rare, uncountable) The state of being contemptuous.
More Meanings
- (rare, countable) Someone or something that is contemptuous.
Example Sentences
The fact is that, as Mr. Toole would say, “too much over-familiarity breeds contemptuosity.”
He tried to sell the pieces as old iron. With scorn and contemptuosity we have to record that this profiteering salesman only offered £1!
A certain German gentleman, not a hundred miles from the Spanish market, got cross one day with some members who were teasing him, and informed them that “familiarity breeds contemptuosity.”
Juno was at the boiling-point of indignation at the wholesale amours of Jupiter, and I have used the word “wench” as applied to Ariadne, in order to point out her utter contemptuosity towards that personage, as the term “wench” in our own language is generally used in a sense of disrespect.
Word Forms
- contemptuosities
Synonyms for contemptuosity
Depending on context, synonyms include contemptuousness.
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