Sentence examples for an object of contempt from inspiring English sources

His customer was an object of contempt.

Dot is an object of contempt -- a mere dot, as Ellmann keeps reminding us.

And yet, for all its beauty, Heaven's Gate is still an object of contempt.

Fuller does not hide his bewilderment at how he has become an object of contempt and ridicule.

Where once labour movements could bring down governments, today the working class has become largely an object of contempt and derision – "chavs".

Even when the Massachusetts law forbidding Christmas was repealed in 1681, the day remained an object of contempt, and its celebration taboo.

Not only had he become a consuming object of contempt in one of the blogosphere's more obsessive neighborhoods; his family and neighbors had learned that the online tribunal had judged him a fraud.

Nonetheless, he said, he was "surrounded from birth with a definition of the Jew... as sufferer, the Jew as an object of ridicule, disgust, scorn, contempt, derision, of every heinous form of persecution and brutality".

For Braun, an object of compassion or contempt — and nothing in between — the future seems sadly uncertain.

Woodrow Wilson's fatuous claim about the European war of 1914-18 — sannexedcally annexed by Adam Hochschild for the title of this moving and important book — was an object of satire and contempt even as it was being uttered.

Tall, gray, and handsome in a sharp-featured way, Mr. Louis was a curiosity to the diplomatic community and an object of fear and contempt to internal opponents of the Communists.