The phrase "a source of contempt" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something or someone that provokes feelings of disdain or scorn.
Example: "His arrogant attitude became a source of contempt among his colleagues."
Alternatives: "a cause of disdain" or "a reason for scorn."
The ignorance of politicians in matters financial is a source of constant contempt on the Street.
"Sharfufa," said spray-painted Arabic graffiti, meaning simply, "Frizz-head," a reference to Qaddafi's bushy and unkempt hairstyle — a source of widespread contempt amongst ordinary, assiduously well-groomed Libyans.
Crocker was recruited in 1943 to design one of its most creative weapons—a military-grade stink bomb that could be distributed to resistance groups and used to make its target "a source of derision or contempt," according to declassified OSS files.
As with "Contempt," the disdain the woman directs at her husband is a source of intense discomfort, even pain, for men in the audience; no man can bear to be looked at that way by someone he loves.
Familiarity may breed contempt, but in games it can also be a source of comfort.
Usually, though, it serves as a consolation prize, a source of ephemeral, ultimately unimportant solace, a meaningless quirk considered by history with the same contempt Les Dawson reserved for a Blankety Blank chequebook and pen.
"Even if some of his statements are misleading by their negative implication that Mr. Bakaly was not a source of information," she wrote, "such a finding does not provide a sufficient basis for a criminal contempt conviction".
Accusing the Republican Party of having "contempt" for government, she asserted that the administration had used federal agencies and contracts "as a source of favors for private interests".
