The phrase "a kind of contempt" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a feeling or attitude of disdain or scorn towards someone or something.
Example: "His remarks were laced with a kind of contempt that made it clear he held little respect for the opposing viewpoint."
Alternatives: "a form of disdain" or "a type of scorn".
To me it's a kind of contempt".
I completely disagree that he has "a kind of contempt for journalism".
Hilton Als of The New Yorker even argued that Pryor had "a kind of contempt" for his own films.
Penn's moonlighting shows a kind of contempt for journalism, which turns out to be rather difficult to do well.
In response to the prevailing view of black people as inferior beings (a view long held in the North as well as the South), it lifted its black characters to the status of impossibly virtuous victims — just the elevation that James Baldwin felt was a kind of contempt.
What one would ordinarily find distracting about Spacey — a dramatic ego that shows little regard for the other performers (until this production, I always associated his grandness with a kind of contempt) — does not have a chance to take root here, thanks, in part, to Eve Best.
So I wanted to convey a kind of bored contempt, I suppose".
"He's going to be voted in, and there's nothing you people can do about it," he said, gesturing to them with a kind of camp contempt.
"The strange thing about Damon's songs," said the critic Jim Shelley, "is that, unlike a writer such as Morrissey or Ian Dury, he has no sympathy for his characters... Albarn's attitude is totally uncharitable, a kind of snide contempt".
More than that, he shines some light on characters we might hold in a kind of unconscious contempt, people we might reflexively assume to be living less than a full life: a priest, a hippie in a van, a redneck logger, a druggie runaway.
I never really warmed to the movie that the musical is based on, just as I haven't warmed to the musical: its atmosphere is at once messy and banal; its relentless pop façade and the constant drama of its music preclude intimacy and distance us from feeling, while encouraging a kind of aggressive contempt.
