"contempt toward" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to indicate a feeling of disdain or disrespect toward someone or something. Example: The politician's remarks were met with widespread contempt toward his lack of empathy for marginalized communities.
"Contempt toward the authorities is growing.
The NSW supreme court heard on Tuesday that Hancock had expressed contempt toward her.
Yet the government of Silvio Berlusconi has shown startling indifference, if not outright contempt, toward opera and other traditional genres.
According to Egyptian law, showing contempt toward Christianity, Islam and Judaism known as "heavenly" religions is a crime.
"There is contempt toward children in conflict with law among those who run these places," he said.
It's hard to determine whom Mr. Eisner is displaying more contempt toward: Governor Bush, Floridians or proponents of free speech.
But there is an element of contempt here — toward commercial culture and capitalism — that hints at some of Grass's earlier attitudes.
A young couple sitting on a porch and staring at Agee had in their eyes "so quiet and ultimate a quality of hatred, and contempt, and anger, toward every creature in existence beyond themselves, and toward the damages they sustained, as shone scarcely short of a state of beatitude".
If the opinions of your school seem largely uniform, how would you rate (using the same scale) the degree of "contempt" they feel toward those of the opposing view?
She said the recent instances reflected "a pattern of needless and angry over-reaction, an attitude of contempt and insult toward both elected officials and private citizens, and an apparent license among the rank and file of the N.Y.P.D. to act inappropriately and insultingly whenever they choose".
Without conceding that Haig might have issued orders to military commanders, General Brown's legal aide did not believe commanders would have responded to extraordinary orders from Haig, considering their personal contempt and animosity toward him.
