What is "contemptuousness"

Usage examples of "contemptuousness".

Moreover I remembered sensitively his contemptuousness of manner to me at my last interview in his office.

I remember the sort of disturbed contemptuousness with which, in my time of "examinations," I dismissed "science papers.

Sometimes their reason-at other times their prejudices or superstitions: often their social affections, not seldom their antisocial ones, their envy or jealousy, their arrogance or contemptuousness: but most commonly, their desires or fears for themselves-their legitimate or illegitimate self-interest.