The colonists were contemptuous of the Indians, who they regarded as uncivilized and satanic heathens, and the fragile early peace between Native Americans and the early settlers would soon unravel in a horrific manner in what is now Mystic Connecticut, where the Pequot tribe was celebrating their own Thanksgiving, the green corn festival.
His failure to keep the shopping malls open riles an elite contemptuous of the red shirts, whom they regard as an uneducated rabble paid by Mr Thaksin to stir up trouble.
Other Americans were frankly contemptuous of the Dutch policy, which they regarded as softheaded.
The Speaker, John Bercow, suggested the government's attempt to avoid a vote on the issue – and therefore sidestep a backbench rebellion – would be regarded by the public as contemptuous.
The Speaker, John Bercow, suggested the government's attempts to avoid a vote on the issue – and therefore a backbench rebellion – would be regarded by the public as contemptuous, while Tory MPs called the decision underhand and tyrannical.
Like many fascists of the interwar period, Zhirinovsky had little regard for women, and he was openly contemptuous of women with education or political power.
But rather than take this as reason to be ever more contemptuous of Anons and their misogyny, the left should regard Anon/the deplorables as a failure on its part, a terrific mangling of the left's own arguments that has resulted in alienating the very group of people who could be the most helped by their ideas, if not the most convinced.
His wife and two-year-old daughter have settled quickly and, quietly contemptuous of colleagues who opt to wear gloves, he regards an English winter as "no problem".
The British were at first contemptuous of the idea of creative-writing courses; they regarded them, as the critic and novelist Malcolm Bradbury once put it, as being "like the hamburger — a vulgar hybrid which, as everyone once knew, no sensible person would ever eat".
Indeed, many journalists still regard it as a prerequisite to be openly contemptuous of their employers.
Sachs, who tends to regard anyone who disagrees with him as immoral, is contemptuous of the Bush administration.
