Sentence examples for contempt around from inspiring English sources

She could smack all that male contempt around, but also give it its honest due.

Beck spreads his contempt around both parties — he hates T.R., too, whose Bull Moose Party was also called the Progressive Party (take that, McCain).

It is conspicuously anti-gay and anti-Semitic, and has gone out of its way to earn contempt around the country by picketing the funerals of soldiers and Marines killed in combat.

Moreover, are we all supposed to pretend not to notice the unlovely whiff of class contempt swirling around this planned curbing of public hedonism?

Which leaves me with nothing but contempt, all around.

Libii's Jay exudes a quiet, menacing contempt for those around him and a pervasive sense of entitlement.

Hers was a confidently imperious Salome, whose voice dripped with contempt for everyone around her, not least her stepfather, Herod.

The colonel, his sunglasses hiding his eyes but not the look of contempt that curled around his lips, moved on to the next cluster of men.

More active in this direction is Eden Fletcher David Wenhamm), an upper-class English landowner who views with contempt all those around him, whether they be the unkempt European settlers in the half-built town of Banyon, the bushrangers or the Aboriginals he wishes to exterminate.

John Cleese built a whole stand-up show around his contempt for his ex-wife.

Mr. Zwigoff and Mr. Clowes never waver in their sympathy for Enid and often share in her withering contempt for the world around her.