Sentence examples similar to contemn from inspiring English sources

She is influential — her cultic following included the young Alan Greenspan — but she is contemned by many intellectuals and is no patron saint to the bloggers at Secular Right.

"True magnanimity as I consider it is a good opinion of oneself, founded on reason and on the solid merit of one who aspires to great things and contemns the petty.

Fell thus severely criticizes those men or "blind Priests" who "pervert the Apostles Words, and corrupt his intent" by "contemning and despising" women in order to prevent them from speaking in church (10, 14).