How To Use Contempt In A Sentence

And on the need for contempt powers, he recounted how officials at times refused to obey the orders.
Ms. Miller's imprisonment for civil contempt of court was less a perfect storm — to use one of the press 'hoarier clichés to characterize a grim convergence of unpleasant events — as it was a brownout, a distressing midsummer sign that a full power outage is on its way. The Great D.C. Plame-Out, Or: Novak, Lord of the Journo-Flies
Frederick, a bisexual misanthrope in a childless, political marriage, was a lapsed Calvinist who held all religions in contempt.
Even where, for example in an unfair dismissal case, the employment tribunal makes an order that the employee be re-employed by the employer in one way or another, if the employer fails to do so there is no contempt of court.
I am quite breathless with excitement, or possibly contempt. Times, Sunday Times

What a suasory example it is for those, who through some freak of fortune, being enabled to shake off the dust of honest toil and industry, are very ready to look downward with contempt upon the rank they have just left. Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense
Chiengmai; but it was curious, even amusing, to observe the serene contempt with which the "interlopers" were received by the rival incumbents of the royal gynecium, -- especially the Laotian women, who are of a finer type and much handsomer than their Siamese sisters. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok
At the same time, if moral guidance is itself morally repugnant, then self-contempt is equally as abhorrent.
Of course the 'nester' or 'punkin roller,' as we contemptuously called the small farmer, began sifting in here and there in spite of our guns, but he was only a mosquito bite in comparison with the trouble which our cow-punchers stirred up. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West
Lastly, the hatred and contempt of the past two millennia add a formidable barrier to authentic communication.
Qui omnem pecuniarum contemptum habent, et nulli imaginationis totius munsi se immiscuerint, et tyrannicas corporis concupiscentias sustinuerint hi multoties capti a vana gloria omnia perdiderunt. Anatomy of Melancholy
He contemptuously dismissed any suggestion to the effect that the dollar was overvalued, or that its climb to record highs on a trade-weighted basis was becoming a source of economic instability.
Again, he pours scorn on racialist mythology but, in his steadfastly conservative way, refuses to become histrionically sanctimonious on the matter, preferring studied contempt to self-promoting outrage.
He accepted the situation, happy in the gentle and protecting affection the girl showed him, fitfully enough, for she had, as she called it, her bad days when she used to visit her mother and remain long hours in the riverside hut, coming out as inscrutable as ever, but with a contemptuous look and a short word ready to answer any of his speeches. Almayer's Folly
In all three cases the conclusion reached was that a deliberate intention to breach the order was not a necessary element for a finding of contempt of court.
Nigerian government of what it called blatant contempt for the rule of law. ANC Daily News Briefing
They have bad manners, contempt for authority and no respect for older people.
The problem is severest for women, who in Colombia are held in contempt or deemed disreputable for working at all.
Rather, it invites ridicule, contempt and cynicism towards the whole devolution project.
What utter contempt the industry has for punters, including those having their annual flutter. The Sun
The classics are retained as a subject in which all must qualify; and the education provided for the ordinary passman is of a contemptible, smattering kind; it is really no education at all. From a College Window
At first instance the plaintiff did not seek to make out a case of an attempt to pervert the course of justice or of contempt of court.
What are the fatal flaws that bring him into such contempt among his own peer group?
The libeller adds that he suspects that Fontenelle never performed the duties of a Christian but out of contempt for A Philosophical Dictionary
We are dropouts from society, useless dregs who make no contribution, so it is inevitable that people will look at us strangely and with contempt.
To forget sb is pretty easy. Just don't see him/her, don't be a contemptible wretch.
They were well paid, as much as fourpence being given for a good cock-crower (in 'The Trial of Christ'), while the part of God was worth three and fourpence: no contemptible sums at a time when a quart of wine cost twopence and a goose threepence. The Growth of English Drama
The tobacco companies may be guilty of contempt of court for refusing to produce the documents.
Few then or now would be as openly contemptuous of the life of the mind as Grant. Times, Sunday Times
Now, Arizona courts must hold hearings every 35 days for those held in civil contempt on family-law issues, and judges must find that a contemnor has the ability to comply with the order. No Charge: In Civil-Contempt Cases, Jail Time Can Stretch On for Years
Their fantasy of Englishness did not include the literary Bengali babu, for whom they felt contempt and distrust.
On the part of those on whom they operate, they are indicative either of improbity or intellectual weakness, or of a contempt for the understanding of those on whose minds they are indicative of intellectual weakness; and on the part of those in and by whom they are pretended to operate, they are indicative of improbity, viz., in the shape of insincerity. Fallacies of Anti-Reformers
And that he who, entering into a church, doth not asperge himself with holy water, sinneth not, (461) if so be he do it _circa contemptum_. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
Why'd you have to come here and... "the contempt deepened"... and... defile everything? GALILEE
Why does the world minify our intelligence by depreciating our favorite article of diet, and express the ultimate extreme of mental pauperism by saying of him on whose intellect they would heap contempt, "He doesn't know beans"? Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z
Another showed the contemptible hypocrisy of the man, whose lustful glances at other women, as he walks with his wife, changes to anger as another man targets his wife.
It does not refrain from resorting to all methods, using all evil and contemptible ways to achieve its end.
The writers of the Bible used the word calf to express their contempt for the object the Israelites worshiped. Mysteries & Intrigues of the Bible
The love they had shared, the love that renewed with each passing day and moments of togetherness had coalesced into a raging fury of hatred and contempt.
The insurgents refer contemptuously to the ISI as "blacklegs," for their supposedly darker skin. With Friends Like These…
Most of the drawings, etchings and aquatints that convey his bitter contempt and passionate despair for what the artist saw as a Spanish hell on earth remained unknown to the public until after his death.
And the issue is this -- starting from the contemptuous defiance of the scriptural doctrine upon the necessity of making provision for poverty as an indispensable element in civil communities, the economy of the age has lowered its tone by graduated descents, in each one successively of the four last _decennia_. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
It's particularly contemptible that these sort of people prey on the elderly.
But amassing information for its own sake seemed contemptible to Sontag, or pitiable, and like so many young people who hope to lead the life of the mind, she despised what she considered to be the airlessness and rigidity of academic life. Becoming Susan Sontag
Trust not the praise of a friend, nor the contempt of an enemy.
No wonder old Jocelyn had called her "wilding" -- she was indeed a "wilding" or weed, -- growing up unwanted in the garden of the world, destined to be pulled out of the soil where she had nourished and thrown contemptuously aside. Innocent : her fancy and his fact
Diana dismissed it with contempt, as the shaft of a _frondeur_ discredited by both parties. The Testing of Diana Mallory
His lips curled in thin lines of contempt as he watched through eyes the shouting, jeering crowd. Christianity Today
Carne (who had taken most kindly to the fortune which made him an untrue Englishman) clapped his breast with both hands; not proudly, as a Frenchman does, nor yet with that abashment and contempt of demonstration which make a true Briton very clumsy in such doings; while Daniel Tugwell, being very solid, and by no means “emotional” — as people call it nowadays — was looking at him, to the utmost of his power Springhaven
When I said that few people make real choices about their lives she sneered contemptuously at me.
That is, the church of Christ founded in humility appearing outwardly afflicted, and as it were black and contemptible; but inwardly, that is, in its doctrine and morality, fair and beautiful. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision
So mean, petty paltry as to deserve contempt.
She sent him a look of contempt before shoving past them and going out the front door.
Poole, a British journalist, does nothing to hide his anger and contempt for the practitioners of “unspeak” and his style is often caustic, dry, and viscous. Lean Left » Blog Archive » Unspeak
The brother of Miss Grandison, Sir, is not ac-customed to treat any man contemptuously. Sir Charles Grandison
But surely my discourse is not of such repulse that I am deserving of their contempt.
As the government has assumed power over monetary policy in contemptuous disregard of the expressed wishes of the savers (to say nothing of the provisions of the Constitution), it aggrandizes power.
Constantinople, where I lived gaily, and spent my money; but I found that to mix in the world, it is necessary not only to have an attaghan, but also to have the courage to use it; and in several broils which took place, from my too frequent use of the water of the Giaour, I invariably proved that, although my voice was that of a lion, my heart was but as water, and the finger of contempt was but too often pointed at the beard of pretence. The Pacha of Many Tales
The crimes that the men committed are contemptible and grave, and the men deserve to lose their liberty for them.
No longer can that notion be dismissed with a contemptuous pah.
exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions
Once again they show their contempt for the humble working man and woman. The Sun
And the DOJ could be less likely to block contempt charges against former White House aides who have refused to testify before Congress.
Contempt proceedings were brought for failure to comply.
Narvaez he described as puffed up by authority, and negligent of precautions against a foe whom he held in contempt. History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes
Because he was literate and articulate, he showed a bitter contempt for the self-appointed intellectuals of the inter-war years.
Now, because he was her client, she tried to look at his unskillful behavior, and the ways he shut himself off, with compassion instead of contempt and fear.
Over time, that hardened into something nearer contempt. Times, Sunday Times
He had been, though a much younger man, acquainted with the late Sir Hildebrand; and whenever Mrs Rayland and Lord Carloraine met, which they did in cumbrous state twice or thrice a year, their whole conversation consisted of eulogiums on the days that were passed, in expressing their dislike of all that was now acting in a degenerate world, and their contempt of the actors. The Old Manor House
Some while later he contemptuously clomb the knoll anew and preached in a voice filled with fulmination: "God consists of three potatoes and seven turnips which have been combined in an ingenious manner. Archive 2009-08-01
Few then or now would be as openly contemptuous of the life of the mind as Grant. Times, Sunday Times
We should be contemptuous of their presumption; we should despise their new wealth.
English soccer hordes have brought disgrace to themselves, contempt on their nation and ignominy to those who try, fitfully, to govern them.
The Island newspaper in particularly is openly contemptuous of the ‘political maggots’ that inhabit parliament and has repeatedly appealed for someone of incorruptible morals to save the nation.
His contempt for ineptitude as well as his disdain for those who held opinions contrary to his was legendary.
Contempt and derision were now poured not upon the heretical supporters of change, but upon their orthodox opponents.
It is hard to imagine a more contemptuous attitude towards patient demand. Times, Sunday Times
The French must view us with utter contempt. Times, Sunday Times
It's particularly contemptible that these sort of people prey on the elderly.
She explains how different mixes of cooperation and resistance were used and how people were often outwardly supportive but inwardly contemptuous. Times, Sunday Times
But the mestizoes, Spanish in their contempt for the Indians, and Indian in their hatred which they had vowed against the Spaniards, burned with both these vivid and impassioned sentiments. The Pearl of Lima A Story of True Love
Her blockage of Durgapur expressway marks the beginning of a new era in contempt for law. Is Mamata Banerjee Leading Political Lawlessness in Bengal?
His pride in barbering and his lack of education make him, like the other barbers, an object of Jimmy's contempt.
A young murder suspect treats him with contempt. Times, Sunday Times
His tone of barely disguised contempt is maintained throughout the book.
To forget sb is pretty easy. Just don't see him/her, don't be a contemptible wretch.
Politicians seem to be generally held in contempt by the police.
Pooh!" ejaculated "Old Jock" contemptuously -- "I've no fear of being troubled by them again. Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea
Mrs Keen has shown utter contempt for her constituents by refusing to explain or justify her actions. Times, Sunday Times
Gush made a loud, explosive noise of disgust, a ` pah " of contempt. A BODY SURROUNDED BY WATER
And first, I am very sensible how much the gentlemen of wit and pleasure are apt to murmur, and be choked at the sight of so many daggle-tailed parsons that happen to fall in their way, and offend their eyes; but at the same time, these wise reformers do not consider what an advantage and felicity it is for great wits to be always provided with objects of scorn and contempt, in order to exercise and improve their talents, and divert their spleen from falling on each other, or on themselves, especially when all this may be done without the least imaginable danger to their persons. An Argument against Abolishing Christianity
Another word returns from the deepest recesses of childhood: “Moscovite,” the word spoken by my parents with special contempt, in reference to those Hungarian Communists who returned to Budapest with the Red Army. Enemies of the People
With cities, as with lovers, familiarity can breed contempt. Times, Sunday Times
Successful engineering students tended to be contemptuous of the work habits of lesser mortals.
Instead we have a government that seems determined to be re-elected by scaremongering and it's utterly contemptible.
Routine acquittals of obviously guilty people would quickly breed contempt for the law.
Then the judge told Mr Beamish what was the maximum penalty for contempt of court.
They are considered beneath contempt in the system, but at Grendon everyone has equal status.
He had everything, the mod sense of dress, an upwardly mobile lifestyle, a healthy contempt for authority and an irrepressible belief in his own creativity.
What I find contemptuous is the naked ambition of most of the contestants.
Blinding hatred and contempt seem to be common reactions among the enlightened elites.
For some time I heard nothing more of the Princess of Chiengmai; but it was curious, even amusing, to observe the serene contempt with which the “interlopers” were received by the rival incumbents of the royal gynecium, ” especially the Laotian women, who are of a finer type and much handsomer than their Siamese sisters. The English Governess at the Siamese Court
He has a thousand ways to express contempt, loathing and disgust. Times, Sunday Times
Secondly, the party disobeying the contempt order must do so in a deliberate and willful fashion in order to satisfy the criminal nature of the contempt proceedings.
Certainly they show a fanatic's contempt for the law.
Legal experts said the court could prosecute the prime minister for contempt, and a conviction would lead to his ouster from the post. Pakistan Court Considers Zardari Immunity
Our proud ancestors repelled the invaders, but their contemptible descendants are sided with the invaders.
For we offer, besides ourselves, a position that has not grown old under the weight of a gigantic, parasitic bureaucracy, a position untempered by the doctoral dissertations of a generation of Ph.D. s in social architecture, unattenuated by a thousand vulgar promises to a thousand different pressure groups, uncorroded by a cynical contempt for human freedom. Buckley Athwart History
David: Well I understand that, but the question seems premised on the position that Congress forcing the DOJ to prosecute someone is the only way for congress to have some it deems a contemnor held in contempt. The Volokh Conspiracy » May Congress Order the Justice Department To Prosecute People Who the Justice Department Firmly Believes are Innocent?
Towards the yellow-hammer, or yellow-yite -- bird of beautiful plumage though it be -- because it is the subject of an unaccountable superstitious notion, which credits it with drinking a drop of the devil's blood every May morning, the children of Scotland cherish no inconsiderable contempt, which finds expression in the rhyme: -- Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk
He is wretched, weak, ugly, inspiring contempt and disgust in not only all the supposedly good-hearted characters but also the reader.
It is hard to imagine a more contemptuous attitude towards patient demand. Times, Sunday Times
It had little relevance to their everyday concerns and displayed contempt for the Yiddish language-their mother tongue.
OTTAWA—A Canadian parliamentary committee recommended that the government be found in contempt of Parliament for not fully disclosing the cost of anticrime legislation, paving the way for a historic rebuke that could trigger a third national election in five years. Historical Rebuke Nears for Ottawa
But familiarity had bred contempt in one of us. Times, Sunday Times
They were blown away with contemptuous ease in the first few minutes in the south of France yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
Such behavior will bring you into contempt.
By the time of his death in 2001, of course, he had become a respected conventional artist, but in those days he had attracted much opprobrium by his contempt for the art world and his refusal to conform in any way to its conventions.
he felt contempt for all banausic occupations
All the inference is that without your pin stripe suit and your four hand tie, you are beneath his contempt. My God George Will is a bigger fashion snob than me! - dfi
The relevant sanction is either being held in contempt of court or being prosecuted under the criminal law.
But at the date of the "Cross Readings" he was mainly what Burke, speaking contemptuously of his status as a plenipotentiary, styled a "_diseur de bons mots_"; and he was for this reason included among those "most distinguished Wits of the Metropolis," who, following Garrick's lead in 1774, diverted themselves at the St. James's Coffee-house by composing the epitaphs on Goldsmith which gave rise to the incomparable gallery entitled _Retaliation_. De Libris: Prose and Verse
The term Gothic was first used during the later Renaissance, and as a term of contempt. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
There was a prima facie case that a contempt of court had been committed.
That drearily prevalent, invertedly snobbish contempt for articulacy? To speak another language isn't just cultured, it's a blow against stupidity
The teachers were very old-fashioned, treating any new ideas with contempt and scorn.
To suggest that people employed in breeding dogs and so forth can be viewed in the same light is contemptible.
But despite his often contemptuousness, he had a love of his students. Whoopi Goldberg to Sister Act to Pedophile Priest to Mother Theresa
She remembered the contempt, the ice in his glance.
Diana had often dreamed of the City of London as the seat of magic; and taking the City's contempt for authorcraft and the intangible as, from its point of view, justly founded, she had mixed her dream strangely with an ancient notion of the City's probity. Diana of the Crossways — Complete
The penalty for breach is punishment for contempt of court.
I need to tread very carefully since there are certain matters that are before the courts, and I know only too well about being chucked in jail for contempt of court.
Buks slapped his braces against his singlet in a double gesture of contempt; a tuft of chest hair deputized for a tie. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
My voice was flat and expressionless, edged with steel and contempt for my enemy.
As an athlete, she is almost contemptuous of fear. Times, Sunday Times
Come to think of it, not so long ago even Puccini was trashed by superior people, who considered his contemporaries decadent, shabby frauds beneath contempt.
On her last stagger to the loos, she'd tied her hair up in a topknot, which Joan was now looking at with contempt. JUST BETWEEN US
I've had passing acquaintance recently with the greed and contemptuous indifference of some London landlords. Times, Sunday Times
After the expulsion of the master, the Twentieth School fell upon evil days, for the trustees decided that it would be better to try "gurl" teachers, as Hughie contemptuously called them; and this policy prevailed for two or three years, with the result that the big boys left the school, and with their departure the old heroic age passed away, to be succeeded by an age soft, law-abiding, and distinctly commercial. Glengarry School Days: a story of early days in Glengarry
No matter how good his material is, the audience wear him down with a mixture of catatonia and contempt.
See Mapp and its progeny. (also, the “cruel trilemma” of perjury, self-accusation or contempt of court mentioned in Andreson). Waldo Jaquith - Albemarle’s useless DUI checkpoint.
People don't learn responsibility by being treated with contempt, by being playthings for other people's political agendas, or by being told that they can have a say in things except when it matters.
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them. Seneca
The men were prepared to purge their contempt of court simultaneously with Shell collapsing its injunction against them.
And now units of this vagrom and unstable street throng, which was forever shifting and changing about them, seemed to sense the psychologic error of all this in so far as these children were concerned, for they would nudge one another, the more sophisticated and indifferent lifting an eyebrow and smiling contemptuously, the more sympathetic or experienced commenting on the useless presence of these children. An American Tragedy
The prosecutor would not be in contempt of court if the prosecutor did not proceed with the indictment.
Yet, because the common mass of humanity was so far beneath him, he had nothing but contempt for it.
She was held in contempt for refusing to testify.
It does not create a privilege for newspeople, rather it provides an immunity from being adjudged in contempt.
Most of the men seem to be intimidated by her, or at least, contemptuous of her because she's disingenuous.
Darrow, on the other hand, was at times condescending and contemptuous in his treatment of witnesses, jurists, opposing lawyers and even the judge.
Public indifference to politics has given way to ridicule, contempt and scorn. Times, Sunday Times
And how, given that I do view these and many other cultures with contempt, am I supposed to provide them with respect, without disrespecting my own views?
They were somewhat contemptuous of the small-bore, mayoral approach of the Clinton administration in his second term.
Men guilty of the most odious and contemptible crimes. The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
The doctrines which the sages had associated with the idea of Serapis, debased and degraded by the most contemptible trivialities; lost all their worth and dignity; and after the great Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
The committee, in its report, found the letter to be insulting but it did not constitute a breach of parliamentary privilege or contempt of Parliament.
Fawehinmi's conviction on the contempt of court charge was quashed by the appeal court in July.
Finally unmuffled and confronted by his comrades, who leave in contempt, Paroles resolves henceforth to make a shameless living as a laughing stock.
There has been no peerage, no official role for the man who singlehandedly pulled the rug from under a contemptuous Brussels elite. The Sun
The first five were friends from school teasing him in fun or scorning him with contempt.
Public indifference to politics has given way to ridicule, contempt and scorn. Times, Sunday Times
The criminals who prey on the elderly are the lowest of the low - contemptible cowards whose targets are the frail and solitary.
It held that if an individual does not comply with a subpoena or order issued by the Tribunal, he could be held in contempt of the Tribunal and the specific contempt procedure could be set in motion.
They are also vaguely contemptuous of his beady-eyed negotiations regarding fees and wardrobe allowances.
Such childhood enthusiasm ensured that the novelist later on would have to be punished with our indulgent contempt, before we eventually realized that our loftiness was more contemptible than his confusions.
Ministers seem almost contemptuous of public alarm at the changing face of Britain. The Sun
Trust not the praise of a friend, nor the contempt of an enemy.
Steele once again shows his contempt for proper vocabulary by making up a word 'guilted' instead of using proper grammar and contructing a sentence that makes sense. Steele: No guilt trip after Kennedy death
Robin Denselow JoJo Marvin's Room Can't Do Better A killer opening line – "I've been up three days: Adderall and Red Bull" – then blankly intoned relationship fallout through a self-medicated fug, bitterness and contempt framed by drugs and booze. F&M playlist
The scandal is damning evidence of the government's contempt for democracy.
I find myself arguing with nearly everything he says and does and thinks and believes, but he's not one of those angry nullities animated by hate and contempt.
In showing contempt for the heavyweight championship Douglas offended a stern code.
Scotchman is silent upon the subject of "vivers," and wisely talks not of either "crowdy" or barley meal, but tells of the time when he was a sitter in the kirk of the Rev. Peter Poundtext, showing his Christian charity by the most profound contempt as well for the ordinances of the Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America
With unprecedented frankness, they speak of the government's contempt for the judiciary.
At first he was like to sulk in the style of a hawk who has failed of his swoop; but seeing his enemy arising slowly with grunts, and action nodose and angular -- rather than flexibly graceful -- contempt became the uppermost feature of his mind. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale
Just another scenario where caring for someone close to me gets me nothing by contempt, scorn and hate in return.
Of much greater practical significance, and by no means obsolete, is the power to punish for contempt.
I did not tell you lies but I do deserve your contempt.
The disgrace of his first marriage might, perhaps, as there was no reason to suppose it perpetuated by offspring, have been got over, had he not done worse; but he had, as by the accustomary intervention of kind friends, they had been informed, spoken most disrespectfully of them all, most slightingly and contemptuously of the very blood he belonged to, and the honours which were hereafter to be his own. Persuasion
In a voice full of told-you-so contemptuousness, she says,“Bill said you might react this way.” Loved, Stupid
The two men have a long, complicated, familial relationship, rooted in a shared experience of the liberation struggle; bonded, too, by a shared distaste -- even contempt -- for the postliberation-movement African politics that leaders like Mr. Tsvangirai represent. Mbeki and Mugabe
In his later comments on the Marx Brothers, he vacillated between generosity and steely contempt.
The glory of Moab shall be contemned, that is, it shall be contemptible, when all those things they have gloried in shall come to nothing. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Now, though Captain Riga had not been guilty of any particular outrage against the sailors; yet, by a thousand small meannesses -- such as indirectly causing their allowance of bread and beef to be diminished, without betraying any appearance of having any inclination that way, and without speaking to the sailors on the subject -- by this, and kindred actions, I say, he had contracted the cordial dislike of the whole ship's company; and long since they had bestowed upon him a name unmentionably expressive of their contempt. Redburn. His First Voyage
She was almost contemptuous, certainly disrespectful to him who'd grown accustomed to respect. A Plague of Angels
And likelie it was that they would passe but little for their disgrading and losse of their order, who in contempt of their calling would not absteine from committing most mischieuous abhominations and hainous enormities. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second
It can only be seen as a professor's contemptible effort to bully a student with whose politics he disagrees.
She gave me a withering look of utter contempt and proceeded to lecture me at length about the finer nuances of Mother's Day.
I feel nothing but contempt for people who treat children so cruelly.
They're just wanting to exert their authority and treat Territorians with total contempt.
On the other hand the youth, like many others of his ilk these days, shows total disregard and contempt for authority of any kind.
After everything he'd accomplished he was back where he'd started; the object of Hank's offhand contempt. ABSOLUTE ZERO
[Footnote 552: Tholuit, or Tholum, in some MSS., but no doubt the same as the Tulum of Letters 9 and 10.] [Footnote 553: 'Ubi et si quid esset quolibet casu, qualibet inquisitione fortassis ambiguum, hujus auctoritatis nostrae judicio constat explosum.'] 'And should any envious person, in contempt of our royal will, dare to raise any question in this matter hereafter, either on behalf of the The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator
They tried to contact him by telephone and loud-hailer, but he responded with contemptuous silence. Times, Sunday Times
He has the rubbery features of a depressed albino bulldog and a thousand ways to express contempt, loathing and disgust. Times, Sunday Times
The Captain has a hearty contempt for his father, I can see, and calls him an old put, an old snob, an old chawbacon, and numberless other pretty names. XI. Arcadian Simplicity
After all the horror stories about victims of insurane company abuse, the blatant display of avarice is contemptible and cruel. Think Progress » WellPoint CEO receives a 51 percent increase in compensation.
The name itself connotes derision and contempt for the inhabitants of the compound.
There is no right to refuse - doing so would be considered contempt for the court, something most judges are apt to get fairly exercised about.

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