Sentence examples for contemptuous to from inspiring English sources

It is surely contemptuous to seek to deny them this possibility.

An alert reporter followed up with "Don't you mean contemptuous?" To which the quick-thinking diplomat replied, "That, too".

Le Guin's evisceration ("toneless, inexact", "flat, dull", "painful") chimed with the bloodier end of Fleet Street's full-spectrum response to the hardback publication, which ran from contemptuous to bowled over with much head-scratching in between.

In addition, there was an op-ed piece by Richard Littlejohn, which began by referring to Cameron's "contemptuous instruction to his MPs to ignore their constituents' views on Europe in the coming referendum".

Made the most disgusting, contemptuous insult to decency ever to masquerade as a documentary".

"Most of these local authorities say they're shocked – shocked, like Captain Renault in Casablanca – to find a contemptuous attitude to parents present at Baker Small.

The interviewer, Lynn "the Demon" Barber claims to have been reduced to terror by Attenborough's contemptuous response to her ineptness with a tape-recorder.

The idea that these defendants suddenly took part in a vicious gang rape without previously sharing contemptuous attitudes to women is hard to believe.

Maria Misra, a lecturer at Oxford University, compares him to the philosophes, by stating, "his contemptuous attitude to the baleful influence of Hinduism in Indian public life is strikingly akin to the anti-Catholic diatribes of the enlightenment philosophes".

He is unsparing in his attack on the complacencies of the suburban upper-middle class, but to describe his attitude as cruel or contemptuous is to miss the compassion and the almost rabbinical ethical seriousness that drives his inquiries.

The contemptuous attitude to women's privacy may feel familiar to those who have followed the debate about compulsory, medically unnecessary ultrasound scans for women seeking abortions in Virginia.