contemptuousness

The marriage of convenience between the two warlords — built on a shared contemptuousness of Sudanese civilians’ democratic aspirations — collapsed into winner-takes-all battle for supremacy in which civilians are the collateral damage.

Following last year’s address, Pelosi’s style of applause went viral after The Washington Post referred to it as “withering,” “pitying” and “Lucille Bluth-like in its contemptuousness,” in reference to the comedic matriarch from "Arrested Development."

She often goes on political rants, and she out calls people around her on their hypocrisy with a contemptuousness that makes her feel like a hybrid between BoJack and Aubrey Plaza.

When Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson appeared before Congress on Tuesday, he exposed his ignorance of the department he runs and his contemptuousness of government oversight.

But was a little context to soften the contemptuousness too much to ask?