The phrase "contempt for being" is grammatically correct, but probably not idiomatic. It isn't used as a stand-alone phrase in English. It might be seen as part of a longer phrase, though, such as "contempt for being ignored." In this context, it means to feel disdain or scorn for the fact that someone has been ignored or disregarded. For example: She turned away with contempt for being ignored by her friends.
The troops in combat regarded us with a mixture of awe, curiosity and contempt for being there voluntarily.
This is perhaps why the Latin roots for superstition contain a sense of disdain, connoting patrician Romans' contempt for being as fearful of the gods as their own slaves are fearful of their masters.
In a 2002 profile of Edwards in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, reporter John L. Mitchell described how Edwards elicited both admiration and contempt "for being a man who, without wealth or political office or a car or a 9-to-5 job, through raw gifts and sheer guff, insinuated himself into the highest levels of influence".
Extreme violence reported towards transvestites and Roma was generally interpreted as driven by contempt for being of minority or deviant status (box 3, extract 3).
(What she really had contempt for was the assumption that, for a politician's wife, this was the only choice).
Such contempt simply for being ordinary.
What makes me think it is fake is my day-to-day contempt for anything being real.
Moreover, since the science classroom is where a contempt for evidence is often first encountered, it is also arguably where it first begins to be cultivated.
Despite its growing prosperity, Europe's capacity for bigotry, hatred and contempt for minorities is far from being exhausted.
Brand's contempt for politicians is clear, and is the reason for both his refusal to vote and his evangelical encouragement of others to follow his example.
Or, as Ms. Dworkin puts it: "Contempt for Jews is warranted because contempt for women is normative; both Jews and women have been locked in at night, Jews in ghettos, women in houses.
