Sentence example with the word 'contempt'

contempt

abhorrence, brash bearing, contemptuousness, denial, discounting, disrepute, freshness, insolence, opprobrium, renouncement, spurning

Last update: January 21, 2018


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A terrorist should be held in contempt.   [noun]

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Even if you feel superior to others, it is unwise to show your contempt for them.   [noun]

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Whoever coined the phrase " familiarity breeds contempt " must have gone that route.   [noun]

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And I felt there was an arrogant contempt for others in the way all the discussion was centered on himself.   [noun]

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Then, as if pitying a want of skill which had proved so fortunate to himself, he smiled, and muttered a few words of contempt in his own tongue.   [noun]

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Then, indeed, the captive turned his face toward the light, and looked down on the stripling with an expression that was superior to contempt.   [noun]

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This sort of contempt for eminences, or rather dread of the labor of ascending them, might have been termed the besetting weakness of the warfare of the period.   [noun]

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"Yes," said Hawkeye, dropping his rifle, and leaning on it with an air of visible contempt, "he will do their singing."   [noun]

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"It is the dearest wish of my heart to return to the Convent at Louvain, and finish my life there, sheltered from the world's contempt."   [noun]

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She had withered in his contempt.   [noun]

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