Sentence example with the word 'contemned'

contemned

Last update: June 18, 2015


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They who were looked upon as servants to the king being then called ` Cavaliers,' and the other of the rabble contemned and despised under the name of ` Roundheads.'" Baxter ascribes the origin of the term to a remark made by Queen Henrietta Maria at the trial of Strafford; referring to Pym, she asked who the roundheaded man was.   [Please select]

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Therefore he mocked Two-legs, scorned and contemned him, laughed ha.   [Please select]

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She, who despised and contemned gossip, was giving it ready ear.   [Please select]

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You will often in your experience hear it, see it in print, slighted and contemned.   [Please select]

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To be justly feared was one thing, to be contemned quite another.   [Please select]

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To pray for him as we had prayed that morning in the language of a race he had contemned might have sounded to him in years past mere clerical impertinence.   [Please select]

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She would begin to-day, if God would only grant her these things she had once contemned, and that seemed now so precious.   [Please select]

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