Sentence examples for as contempt from inspiring English sources

"Disdain," he said, though he added: "It's not as strong as contempt.

He said judicial agreements between France and the court do not apply to such offenses as contempt of court.

It is all too easy for patients and their supporters to interpret concern as contempt for the sufferer.

Failure to remove a veil when ordered to do so should be treated as contempt of court.

"We will be taking people to court if necessary, and if there is refusal to pay, then that could be seen by a judge as contempt of court".

"There was a fear of someone else, a fear of change," Adams remembered, later describing the mood succinctly as "contempt before investigation".

At times he expresses almost as much contempt for the self-ghettoizing of Zionists as for Nazis.

That may seem trivial, especially as I don't have hands, but in the world of swimming, finishing incorrectly is treated with as much contempt as kicking sacks of kittens into a canal.

Presumably, truth was no less prized in the 17th or 18th centuries than in the 19th century (though shams may have been less rife), while hypocrisy was regarded with as much contempt.

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It could be the fact that "GCB" seems to have as much contempt for its characters as most of the characters have for each other.